Just 10 firms helped by £50m Essex bank fund
STRUGGLING businesses shouldn't bank on anything from Essex County Council, according to shocking new figures.
20 May 2010
National News
Jacquie Heralds Moves to End Child Detention
Jacquie Bell has welcomed news that the coalition government will be proceeding with Lib Dem manifesto policy to end the detention of children seeking sanctuary.
19 May 2010
Annette Brooke MP wants more recognition for carers
Annette Brooke MP has teamed up with GMTV news reporter and presenter John Stapleton to support this year's Carers Week (14 - 20 June) and celebrate the contribution made by people in Mid Dorset and North Poole, and throughout the UK, who provide unpaid care for someone who is ill, frail or disabled.
19 May 2010
200 Patient groups and Euro MEPs give backing to the call for action
Liz Lynne MEP were among a group of Euro MPs who today backed calls for a major awareness and prevention campaign against the chronic liver disease Hepatitis. To mark World Hepatitis Day today, May 19th, Liz Lynne and MEPs from all parties have supported a call by 200 Patients' groups to back a World Health Organization (WHO) resolution on viral hepatitis. The resolution is being debated at the 63rd World Health Assembly in Geneva this week.
19 May 2010
Two men attack a disabled man with his own stick.
A 52-year-old disabled man was found with a broken leg and collapsed lung after being attacked with his own walking stick at his Rochdale home. The victim let two men whom he recognised into his home on Whitehall Street at 0300 BST on Saturday. The men became angry when the victim said he did not have cigarettes, drugs or money and one began assaulting him, police said.
19 May 2010
Disabled student's case on student loan is upheld.
The Public Services Ombudsman has upheld a disabled student's complaint about the stress he suffered over the management of his grant claims. The student, known as Mr K, said Gwynedd council made unnecessary grant reassessments and unreasonably withheld payments of his disability allowance. The report blamed a "catalogue of communication failures" between the council and the Student Loans Company.
19 May 2010