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The Norwich bus service that provides vital help for disabled people
The Norwich Door To Door community mobility bus, which transports the elderly and disabled to the supermarket.
Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
Catherine Morris-Gretton Wednesday, September 10, 2014
1:26 PM
Norwich Door to Door community bus provides a vital service for disabled people. As part of a series of features about the organisation, reporter Catherine Morris-Gretton went out on one of the buses to meet the people who rely on the service.
It may only be early September, but a group of friends who met on the Norwich Door to Door bus has already booked a Christmas meal.
Passengers also arrange their own monthly meet-ups and pass on jigsaw puzzles to each other, seeing the service as much more than just a mode of transport.
The torment of trying to be a good granny AND a dutiful daughter
Top author Rosie Staal says women like her are in despair
- 92-year-old mother Jean is beset by Alzheimer’s, breast cancer, hearing loss and poor sight
- Rosie longs to spend more time with grandsons Joe, 5 and Zach, 3, and her two-year-old granddaughter Poppy
- Women over 60 make up nearly a third of all hospital admissions for anxiety – juggling caring for elderly parents, grandchildren and ageing or ill partners
- Rosie worries she is also neglecting her husband David
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On the train heading home to Dorset from London last week, I leaned my head against the cold window, closed my eyes and savoured a rare moment to draw breath.
After spending three days with my grandsons Joe, five, and Zach, three, I could still hear their joyful voices in my ears and feel their trusting little hands in mine.
Turning my back as they wave goodbye haunts me after every visit, causing a physical jolt to my heart.
Now UN sparks fury after launching human rights investigation into Britain’s disability benefit reforms
UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has opened probe
- Will check if there has been ‘grave violations’ of rights of disabled people
- MPs tonight branded the investigation ‘politically motivated’
- Earlier this year a group of UN ‘ambassadors’ attacked UK welfare reforms
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The United Nations sparked fury today after launching an unprecedented inquiry into Britain’s treatment of the disabled.
The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities launched a formal probe into whether this country has committed ‘grave or systemic violations’ of the rights of disabled people.
