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TRIBUTES have been paid to a much loved 'icon' in the Afro-Caribbean community of Manchester.

Elouise Edwards MBE was a community activist and lifelong campaigner for racial equality and justice, involved in more than 35 organisations in Greater Manchester.

Lovingly known as 'Mama Edwards',' she was at the forefront of the push for equality in Manchester for new Windrush arrivals and their children.

She passed away on Saturday, January 22, aged 88.

Elouise Chandler, the youngest of 10 children, was born in Guyana, South America, in 1932. Her father was a civil engineer who extracted gold from the goldfields of Guyana and her mother was a housewife.

In 1955, she married Beresford Edwards at St George's Cathedral, Georgetown, Guyana.

Beresford came to England in 1960, and Elouise followed in 1961 with her three-year-old son.

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