Monthly Archives: July 2011
Touchingly they became carers for one another
They were Shropshire childhood sweethearts
Tuesday 19th July 2011, 10:05AM BST.
For more than 70 years, childhood sweethearts Allen Clifford and his wife Rita were inseparable. Not even Allen being captured as a prisoner of war could keep them apart.
“Rita and I met as 16-year-olds at a church youth club before World War Two,” says Allen, now aged 88, from Telford.
“I was shot down over Germany and interned as a PoW. I subsequently escaped and Rita and I got engaged in 1945 and married in 1946.”
The couple raised a son and lived and worked all over England; Rita as a civil servant and primary teacher, Allen as a lecturer and later an education inspector.
Sporting and cultural weekend of activities set to mark one year until London 2012
Will they have remembered carers and the disabled
19 July 2011
A raft of sporting and cultural activities are set to take place across the county this weekend (July 22, 23 and 24) as Norfolk County Council funding helps communities to mark one year until the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games begin.
The London 2012 Open Weekend will see events taking place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday – with each using up to £500 worth of funding from Norfolk County Council to put on sporting and cultural events for local people to enjoy.
NHP is to run the Southern Cross care homes alongside Dr Chai Patel
Southern Cross landlord NHP to rescue 249 care homes
The biggest landlord to Southern Cross Healthcare says it will rescue 249 care homes across the UK by creating its own operating business.
NHP is to run the Southern Cross care homes alongside Dr Chai Patel, the former boss of the famous Priory clinic.
Southern Cross Healthcare
The creation of the new business, which is yet to be named, helps to secure the future of more than half the Southern Cross care homes needing new operators.
Southern Cross, Britain’s biggest care home group, announced last week that it was beginning an “orderly closure” after its 80 landlords decided to take back their 752 care homes. The company had tried to cut its £250m rental bill because of falling occupancy rates and fees.
