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Twitter to host Remembrance Day service

November 10, 2011   Carers

Twitter to host Remembrance Day service

Remembrance Day service to include readings, hymns, names of those who gave their lives and a minute’s silence.

 

Twitter is to host a Remembrance Day service for the first time. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

A Remembrance Day service will be held on Twitter on Friday and Sunday, using 140 characters for readings, hymns, the last post, the names of those who gave their lives and contributions from veterans.

The project, run by a group of Methodists, is aimed at bringing together traditional elements of prayer and worship with a digital approach for people who cannot attend a service or would not normally do so. It is thought to be the first time a remembrance service has been held on the micro-blogging site.

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Carers invited to visit Scottish Parliament

November 10, 2011   Carers, disability, Scotland

Local carers make parliament visit


TWO local MSPs, Graeme Dey (Angus South) and Nigel Don (Angus North & Mearns), welcomed a group of local carers to the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh last week.

Mr Dey had visited Angus Carers Centre in Arbroath earlier this year and invited them to come along and see First Minister’s Questions (FMQs). The carers came from Forfar, Letham, Arbroath, Kirriemuir, Carnoustie amongst a number of other towns and villages in the county.

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£1bn, 10-year deal for a private firm to run a struggling NHS hospital

November 10, 2011   Carers, hospital

Circle in deal to run Hinchingbrooke NHS hospital

By Branwen Jeffreys Health correspondent, BBC News

CEO of Circle Ali Parsa said the company has always re-invested profits back into services.

A groundbreaking £1bn, 10-year deal for a private firm to run a struggling NHS hospital has been confirmed.

Circle, which is part-listed on the London Stock Exchange, is to take over Hinchingbrooke hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, from 1 February 2012.

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