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Free courses for unpaid carers
Published on Sunday 27 May 2012 09:09
CARERS can learn how to design cards on a computer at free courses which are being held in June.
A two-week course will take place on Thursday, June 14, and Thursday, June 21, at the old TA building, Elizabeth Street, Corby.
Car clinic gets young carers mobile ON THE ROAD
Car clinic gets young carers mobile
By TERRY KELLY
ON THE ROAD … youth carers project co-ordinator Karen Ahmed, left, with Dawn Swales of Just Car Clinic, and staff and children of the Macmillan Cancer Support.
Published on Saturday 26 May 2012 14:00
HELP is getting into gear for three children on South Tyneside who are caring for their seriously ill father.
The children, aged nine, 11 and 14, from Jarrow, are supporting their dad, who is battling against a brain tumour.
But the youngsters often find visiting their father, who is in St Clare’s Hospice, Jarrow, difficult and stressful.
But help is available for the children and others, thanks to the South Tyneside Young Carers Project.
Blind people are ‘living in fear of welfare reforms’
Welfare reform threatens to steal their independence and dignity, David Miliband was told
The South Shields MP was at a summit in his constituency listening to the concerns of those who say the benefits cuts have left them at crisis point.
