{"id":307636,"date":"2025-07-31T22:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307636\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:09:12","slug":"birmingham-councillor-kerry-jenkins-dies-after-short-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307636\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham councillor Kerry Jenkins dies after short illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;She was a deeply principled champion for young people in Birmingham and someone who worked tirelessly for the people of Moseley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She will be sorely missed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Jenkins&#8217; family said she had died with her four children and close relatives at her bedside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sharon Thompson, deputy leader of the council, said: &#8220;Kerry was never afraid to speak up on the things that mattered to her, never afraid to call out injustice and would often support many friends in the Labour Group. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She was supportive to many in the community and also creative &#8211; her knitting was on point. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We always talk about the need for strong women in politics &#8211; Kerry was one of the strongest in the Chamber.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: &#8220;She was a deeply principled champion for young people in Birmingham and someone who worked tirelessly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-307636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114950135135761513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}