Author Archives: wendy
Flu jabs for carers
Get prepared for Winter
As a carer you may be worried about getting the flu because it would affect your ability to care for the person you’re looking after. You may be able to get a flu jab because of this, or because of your age or your own health.
World Mental Health Day: I battled depression for six years, I didn’t just ‘get over it’ overnight
We need to look at how far we’ve come in removing the stigma surrounding depression, and see how we can act to do more.
It’s the 20th anniversary of World Mental Health Day today. Twenty years of awareness-raising about mental illness and yet, when talking to a friend’s father about writing this blog I dropped the ‘d’ word, his response was to roll his eyes heavenward and exclaim “oh I don’t believe in all that, you’re either happy or a bit pissed off”.
Anecdotal evidence I realise, but I wondered nevertheless whether this attitude was an isolated one, perhaps the result of belonging to a generation whose answer to curing ‘the blues’ is giving yourself a stern talking to. Unfortunately not.
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg backs EDP Ambulance Watch campaign
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has lent his backing to the EDP Ambulance Watch campaign and urged readers to share their experiences of the service to create the ‘fullest possible picture’ of the problems in Norfolk.
Daniel Grimmer Wednesday, October 10, 2012
9:09 AM
The Liberal Democrat leader described the campaign as an example of exactly the sort of issue local newspapers should be tackling, during a visit to the county yesterday.
Mr Clegg was on private visits to Norfolk to meet Liberal Democrat members in north Norfolk and Norwich, and to lend support to two of his party’s MPs.
But, in an interview with the EDP, at the King’s Head pub in Letheringsett, he revealed the frustrations of being in a coalition government, how he believes a compromise can be reached on the so-called mansion tax, how he hopes Norwich South MP Simon Wright’s re-election chances will not be damaged by the tuition fees controversy and how he believes local newspapers have a crucial role to play in holding organisations to account.
