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Please remember mothers and carers struggling against poverty on this day
Bishop issues Mothering Sunday message
5:24pm Friday 8th March 2013 in News
THE Bishop of Dudley, the Rt Revd David Walker, is asking people to remember mothers who are struggling to make ends meet this year – 100 years after the campaign to re-establish Mothering Sunday was launched.
Rt Rev Walker said: “I’m not feeling very sentimental about motherhood this year, at a time when more and more mothers are needing to turn to church run Food Banks to see their children are adequately fed.
Help for carers in Yorkshire on keeping warm
Advice available at Bracken Bank winter warmer
3:00pm Saturday 23rd February 2013 in Keighley
An advice session at a Bracken Bank community centre will be a real winter warmer.
People can drop in to receive advice on staying warm and well during the ‘Eat or Heat’ event on Monday.
Does no one care asks disabled man left in the cold?
Disabled man left to freeze
Chris Eaborn, keeping warm next to an old gas fire, lent to him by a neighbour
A DISABLED man trapped in his freezing Wigan home has made a public cry for help after having his power cut off for more than three days.
Chris Eaborn was so desperate for help after his electricity was cut off that he put notices in his window crying “HELP! We have had no electricity or heating for 72 hours. Does anyone care at all?”
Another reads: “We cannot cook any food, we cannot shower, basic human rights denied,”
The 56-year-old had been hoping for a quick fix after cable fault hit his home in Woodhouse Lane, Beech Hill, last Saturday night.
With no phoneline, he was forced to seek the help of a neighbour, whose power had also been shut off, to call Electricity North West.
But due to high volumes of calls following the bad weather, Mr Eaborn was unable to get through until Monday morning,
So he put up an SOS message in his window, hoping someone would take pity and help him and the two other houses in the row of terraced homes affected.
The resident, who has an ulcerated leg, said; “I have no power, no heat and I am freezing – there is no damp proofing and I have had two freezing nights.
“I can’t even boil a kettle, have a shower, or cook hot food – I can’t do anything because everything is powered by electricity. I need the heat because of my leg.
