Monthly Archives: December 2013
MP’s blast over welfare ‘cruelty’
The hardships being suffered by Blackpool residents were laid bare to Prime Minister David Cameron during a heated exchange in Parliament.
Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden used yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Question Time to put pressure on Mr Cameron about the impact welfare reforms are having on ordinary people.
He said: “As the Prime Minister sits down for Christmas dinner to’ chillax’ with his family and friends, will he spare a thought for my Blackpool constituents, and half a million others, whose Christmas is mired in the incompetence and random cruelty of DWP’s benefits sanctions.
Heartache of seeing husband with dementia slowly dying
Valerie Davison of Long Sutton Valerie with pictures of her and and husband, whose in dementia care.
20th December 2013
IT team raise over £90,000 for carers’ charity
Dec 19 2013 by Our Correspondent, Ormskirk Advertiser
Raise more than £94,053
A TRIATHLON squad from Skelmersdale helped fundraisers from the Co-operative’s IT team raise more than £94,053 for their charity of the year, the Carers Trust.
The Skem runners, swimmers and cyclists organised by Nadine Burns, John Jones and Stephanie Moran, raised £1,200 for the charity.
