Tag Archives: Multiple Sclerosis

Boost for North Yorkshire respite care centres

Improvements  for adult day care in North Yorkshire

9:33am Thursday 28th July 2011

By Mark Stead » Political Reporter

MILLIONS of pounds are to be spent on bringing adult day care in North Yorkshire up to date.

The £3.8 million package of improvements to Selby Day Activity Centre will include the creation of a new four-bed respite unit after the facility was marked out as needing work to bring it up to modern standards.

Young carers tell their stories & interview JLS Oritse Williams

Young carers tell their stories & interview JLS Oritse Williams

Young carers tell their stories & interview JLS Oritse Williams, himself a young carer in the past. He gives them advice about surviving the problems of being a young carer and making the best of what they have.
highlights young carers do a fantastic job looking after a relative in need of care but they also have needs and people to listen to them but there are cuts to the backup services for some

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I became a popstar to help find a cure for MS

JLS singer Oritse Williams: ‘I became a popstar to help find a cure for MS to save my mother’

Last updated at 2:39 AM on 24th July 2011

Most young men trying to carve out a career in the music industry have fame and the wealth that accompanies it as an incentive to push them to the top of the charts.

But for Oritse Williams, founding member of platinum-selling boyband JLS, the motivation was his mother’s battle with the incurable illness multiple sclerosis (MS).