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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.
Save our NHS
Norfolk MP presented with ‘save our NHS’ petition
Saturday, March 9, 2013
11:44 AM
A petition against the “privatisation” of the NHS was presented to a Norfolk MP on Friday.
Health minister Norman Lamb receives the 38 Degrees petition. Local campaigners met with health minister and North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb to hand over a national petition signed by more than 240,000 people as part of the 38 Degrees campaign.
The petition opposes the government’s section 75 plans to allow GP commissioners to open up every part of local health services to private companies.
However, Mr Lamb said the coalition government had listened to concerns by agreeing to withdrawing and rewriting section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act.
The 38 Degrees group is now calling on Mr Lamb to make sure that any new regulations honour the promises that ministers made to the public when the act went through Parliament last year.
