Shopmobility Aberdeen hoping to benefit from RBS CommunityForce initiative.
By Danny Law 08 October 2011 09:00 BST
Help: Shopmobility Aberdeen provide scooters and wheelchairs for people with limited mobility.
An Aberdeen disability charity wants to extend its services with the help of a £6000 grant.
Shopmobility Aberdeen lends powered and manual wheelchairs and scooters for use throughout the city centre to people who have long-term disabilities or illnesses.
Fuel poor could miss out on help
By Bob Howard Reporter, Money Box
The BBC has learned that not everyone eligible for the new Warm Home Discount will receive it because of funding limits.
Warm Home Discount replaces the current social tariffs provided by the energy firms to help customers on low incomes.
More than half a million pensioner households will get £120 off their bills this winter.
A carer who turned her home into a respite centre for disabled children has been short-listed for a national Woman of the Year award.
Jackie Millerchip, of Hinckley, is one of three finalists in ITV1’s Lorraine Inspirational Woman of the Year awards, and will appear on the show on Monday.
Jackie with Scarlett Kyle, 1 and Danny Golding, 3
