Monthly Archives: May 2012
Fears redesign for Norfolk’s services for carers leaves future of small grants scheme in doubt
Kim Briscoe Tuesday, May 1, 2012
5.50 PM
Grassroots carers’ groups across Norfolk fear the future of a small grants scheme which is a lifeline for them and the people they look after has been thrown into doubt.
The small grants, of £300 for existing carers’ groups or £500 for new groups, are normally dished out as part of a £30,000 annual pot given by Norfolk County Council to the Norfolk and District Carers’ Forum.
Norwich diabetic heads to parliament with type one diabetes charity JDRF
Raising the issue of why insulin pumps are not more available to people with type one diabetes
Kim Briscoe Tuesday, May 1, 2012
6.30 AM
A Norwich diabetic has helped to educate MPs about type one diabetes as part of a landmark lobby group.
Amy Turner travelled to the Houses of Parliament with other supporters of the charity JDRF, which raises funds for research into type one diabetes.
The 29-year-old, who lives off Elm Hill, said wanted to help raise awareness of the condition among MPs and to encourage them to take action to increase funding into medical research into type one diabetes.
She said: “We definitely got our point across, made quite a lot of noise and raised the profile of the condition.
Parents tell of their grief over 19-year-old who ‘didn’t realise how beautiful she was’
‘Eating disorders take a huge toll on the body over a period of time.’
- Despite stunning good looks, teenager never believed she was attractive enough for the modelling world
- She developed anorexia and bulimia at the age of 16 and the illnesses left her too tired to work
- The model died in her sleep at her grandmother’s house of suspected heart failure
By Andrew Levy
PUBLISHED: 17:20, 30 April 2012 | UPDATED: 01:20, 1 May 2012
At 19, with several teen magazine cover shoots behind her and the prospect of a lucrative modelling career ahead, she appeared to have the world at her feet.
But while to others she seemed a confident and beautiful young woman, Bethaney Wallace was facing a crippling struggle with eating disorders which saw her weight plunge to under 7st – and which finally claimed her life.
Doctors believe that, over the three years since she developed anorexia and bulimia, her condition had weakened her heart and it gave out as she slept.
Bethaney, left at a shoot, was forced to step away from modelling when her illnesses left her too weak to work
Self conscious youth: Bethaney modelled from the age of 12 – but she never saw herself as attractive and was anorexic and bulimic by 16
Yesterday, her father Clive, 47, said: ‘She lost her self-esteem.
‘She would say she was fat but she was so beautiful – she didn’t realise how beautiful she was. She had up days and down days. It was like Jekyll and Hyde.
‘I tried to warn her that her organs would fail but she just said: “Don’t be silly”. If you mentioned food it would start an argument.’
Her mother Cathy, 42, added that she felt helpless because Bethaney couldn’t be persuaded to seek professional advice.
‘It was so hard to get help,’ the housewife said. ‘I went to the doctor’s a few times on my own.
‘I asked them to call her in for something else and then bring up the eating disorder. But Beth was not a child so I could not force her to get help.
