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Teachers, bin men and carers all to fall under budget axe
- By Dailyrecord.co.uk
- 28 Sep 2012 00:01
“Services for the disabled and elderly will be scaled back in ways that will really affect people’s lives.
UNION bosses have warned that front line services will be right in the firing line thanks to multi-million pound cuts.
EDUCATION, social work and cleansing services will all be hammered by the brutal £50million cuts at Scotland’s biggest council.
Public sector workers’ union Unison last night said it would be crazy to think the axe will not fall on the frontline.
Glasgow City Council have said they will have to make the cuts over the next two years. It will mean 1000 jobs going by 2015 on top of 3000 staff who have left since 2010.
A Day to Remember, a film to mark World Alzheimer’s Day
Are you worried someone close to you is losing their memory?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9SRly5YC68
In A Day to Remember, a film to mark World Alzheimer’s Day and the launch of the dementia campaign from the Department of Health and the Alzheimer’s Society, Sir Michael Parkinson, Fiona Phillips and Gordon Banks talk about the importance of memory, the most memorable moments of their lives and their experience of having a loved one with dementia.
Ambulance takes nearly two hours to reach woman injured on Sheringham
Ambulance chiefs are to investigate why an elderly woman lay bleeding badly from a head wound on Sheringham High Street for nearly two hours before a vehicle arrived to take her to hospital.
Alex Hurrell, Reporter Thursday, September 27, 2012
9:00 AM
Joan Newton, 82, remembers hearing a paramedic repeatedly phoning to find out where the ambulance had got to as she lay distressed, cold, her clothes soaked in blood, and fearing she had broken her neck.
But it was a St John Ambulance vehicle which finally arrived to take her to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital where a deep gash in her head was stitched and she remained for two days and nights.
The East of England Ambulance Trust (EEAST) has said the incident happened at a busy time but a paramedic had arrived to care for Miss Newton within the 30-minute response time for a patient reported to be fully alert and breathing normally.
