My mother, Beulah Ainley, who has died aged 77, was a nurse turned journalist and a staunch promoter of diversity in the media world, including through her championing of the creation of the George Viner Memorial Fund, which has provided bursaries to more than 150 minority-ethnic students to undergo journalistic training.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, to Ruby (nee Hall), a cleaner, and her husband, Rudolph Golding, a cobbler, Beulah went to Kingston secondary school. At the age of 18, after her parents had divorced, she and her mother and brother, Errol, emigrated to England.
