Category Archives: Norfolk

Fundraising events organised in West Norfolk with help of Stephen Fry’s signed photo

LYNN NEWS YOUNG CARERS’ APPEAL: Fundraising events organised in West Norfolk

 

Published on Thursday 7 July 2011 17:11

SIGNED photos by celebrity Stephen Fry and a three-course meal will be on offer at a forthcoming fundraiser for the Lynn News Young Carers’ Appeal. 

The charity night has been organised by the West Norfolk Young Carers’ Group, in Lynn, who will benefit from the new campaign.

It will take place at Lynn’s Town Hall, in Saturday Market Place, on Friday, October 14, from 8pm until 11.30pm.

Coroner calls for lessons to be learned following Norfolk man’s death

 

Coroner calls for lessons to be learned following Norfolk man’s death in ‘horrific’ circumstances

By PETER WALSH Thursday, June 30, 2011

 10.07 AM

A coroner has demanded lessons be learned after social services failed to check on an 82-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease who was then found dead in “horrific” circumstances.

Social services staff were supposed to check on Kenneth Mills four times a day, but they failed to do so and his son faced the “terrible trauma” of finding his father dead and his frail mother lying in her own urine next to him.

Doctor struck off for kicking care home resident in rubber glove row

Doctor struck off for kicking West Runton care home resident in rubber glove row

Steve Downes Wednesday, June 29, 2011
9.51 AM

A doctor has been struck off after an incident in a Norfolk care home.

A doctor who kicked an autism sufferer on the backside in Norfolk in a row over a pair of rubber gloves has been struck off.

 Polish national Dr Robert Bartosik, 47, hit out at the patient following the argument at Treehaven residential home in West Runton.