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Please remember mothers and carers struggling against poverty on this day

Bishop issues Mothering Sunday message

5:24pm Friday 8th March 2013 in News

THE Bishop of Dudley, the Rt Revd David Walker, is asking people to remember mothers who are struggling to make ends meet this year – 100 years after the campaign to re-establish Mothering Sunday was launched.

Rt Rev Walker said: “I’m not feeling very sentimental about motherhood this year, at a time when more and more mothers are needing to turn to church run Food Banks to see their children are adequately fed.

Homeless man dies in the cold – where is the Care?

Homeless man Daniel Gauntlett dies frozen on doorstep of empty bungalow in Aylesford

Homesless Daniel Gauntlett died outside this bungalow in Hermitage Lane, Aylesford

Homesless Daniel Gauntlett died outside this bungalow in Aylesford

by Chris Hunter

A tarpaulin, a pillow, a dirty old jacket, a carrier bag and a few worthless items strewn over the veranda of a boarded-up bungalow.

This is where homeless Daniel Gauntlett tried to find shelter through a bitterly cold winter and where, on a freezing night on Saturday, he finally succumbed to the cold.

Mr Gauntlett, 35, was found the next morning by a passer-by who spotted his body from the pavement.

His belongings still left where he died, residents in Hermitage Lane, Aylesford, reacted with sadness to the news and said Mr Gauntlett had become a familiar sight in the street.

And they said the sadness was compounded by the fact he died outside an empty bungalow due to be bulldozed.

Police had reportedly been called previously after he tried to break into the bungalow. And so Mr Gauntlett, had taken the fatal decision to abide by the law.

Derek Bailey, 80, who lives next door, said Mr Gauntlett had not appeared to be in ill health.

Carer faces eviction after patient admitted to home

Do you think this is fair?

3:00pm Thursday 10th January 2013 in News By Will Lodge

Alison Mortimer faces eviction from her home. Alison Mortimer faces eviction from her home.

A CARER who faces eviction after her patient was admitted to a care home has pleaded for more time.

For the last five years Alison Mortimer has been a registered live-in carer for her friend of 17 years, but when he was admitted permanently into a care home she was given notice to leave his council property in Daniell Drive, Shrub End.

Now Colchester Borough Homes have applied to evict Ms Mortimer, 58, from the home as she has not yet been able to find somewhere else to live.

A spokesman for Colchester Borough Homes, who run properties for Colchester Council, said: “As Ms Mortimer is not a tenant it is not possible for her to stay at the property because the tenancy is not transferable in these circumstances.”

 

 

 

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/10150644.Carer_faces_eviction_after_patient_admitted_to_home/