Tag Archives: carers

A short film about the work done by the Princess Royal Trust for Carers

A short film about the wonderful work done by the Princess Royal Trust for Carers

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIYfXnQJvdc[/youtube]

Highlighting potentially fatal rare disease – HPP

Norwich mum tells of heartbreak at toddler’s rare condition

Kate Scotter Monday, May 16, 2011
6:30 AM

A Norwich mum has spoken of her heartache after discovering her son had a potentially fatal rare syndrome – and that she carried its genes. 

Two-year-old Preston Quinton looks like a happy little toddler with his curly brown hair and toothless smile. But he has already had to undergo two major head operations and doctors currently do not know if he will be able to run, walk or jump later in life.

Pay gap widening to Victorian levels

Pay gap widening to Victorian levels

High pay commission forecasts top earners’ slice of national income will rise from current 5% to 14% by 2030

Graham Snowdon

  • The Guardian, Monday 16 May 2011
  • Whitechapel victorian poor

    Victorian poverty. Is the pay gap taking us back there? Photograph: Stapleton Collection/CORBIS

    Wage disparity between the UK’s top earners and the rest of the working population will soon return to the levels of the Victorian era unless action is taken to curb executive pay, a new report by the high pay commission claims.