If he’s lucky, Frank Bailey gets a good night’s sleep twice a week. The rest of the time he is on call and spends the small hours worrying, waiting for a bell to ring, to signal at best that his sick wife, Faith, needs help out of bed; at worst that she is struggling for breath and he will have to call paramedics to take her to hospital.
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Why we need to put MS on the map
Why we need to put MS on the map
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People with MS tell us why we need to put MS on the map
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9 year old has created an online forum to help children with diabetes
Cerys-Anne, nine, from Trowbridge, helps fellow young sufferers
5:00pm Sunday 8th May 2011
To visit Cerys-Anne’s website, go to www.theinsulingang.co.uk.
A nine-year-old Trowbridge girl has created an online forum to help children with diabetes – just 12 weeks after being diagnosed herself.
Cerys-Anne Blake, a pupil at Bellefield Primary School, was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes in January, after being poorly with a chest infection for three weeks and losing weight.
Social care cuts: 'The people concerned are invisible'
Social care cuts: ‘The people concerned are invisible’
The most vulnerable sections of society are emerging as the worst hit by council cuts
- Karen McVeigh
- The Guardian, Tuesday 10 May 2011
- Article history
Frank Bailey, 80, and his wife Faith, 72, who are at risk of having the funding for overnight care cut.
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