Tag Archives: Norfolk

New state-of-the-art loo helps Norfolk mum’s campaign for disabled dignity

March 23, 2012   brain surgery, Carers, disability, Norfolk

A campaigning mum has taken a major step in improving the lives of severely disabled residents after helping to get a new state-of-the-art toilet facility installed in north Norfolk.

Lucy Clapham Friday, March 23, 2012
1:02 PM

 Debbie Green has finally got the disabled toilet and changing area she has been campaigning for. Pictured in the new room at Glanford with builder and landlord Roger Combe. PHOTO: ANTONY KELLY

Debbie Green has been pushing for years to get more of the pioneering “changing place” toilets built in her home county after having her son Alistair, who was left brain damaged following his premature birth.

The “enchanting” young man died in 2008 aged 17 but Mrs Green has continued her fight to see more of the much-needed facilities installed.

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Norwich Door to Door Founder and Passenger chosen as an Olympic Torchbearer

March 19, 2012   Carers, cerebral palsy, Norfolk

Roger’s nomination story

  • Carrying the Flame on: 05 Jul 2012
  • Carrying the Flame through: Acle
  • Age: 60
  • Hometown: Norwich

 

Roger is the founder of Norwich Door to Door, a voluntary organisation and charity formed on July 17 1992. We will be 20 years old in July 2012. Today the charity supports 500 severely disabled children, adults and older people with mobility problems who are unable to leave their own homes without specialist care and assistance. We own seven accessible mini buses with lifts that are the wheels to opportunity in our community.
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Terminally-ill north Norfolk woman weds partner at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

March 16, 2012   Cancer, Carers, Norfolk

A terminally-ill woman from north Norfolk has fulfilled a life-long dream of getting married, despite being given only weeks to live.

By DONNA-LOUISE BISHOP
Thursday, March 15, 2012
9:37 PM

 

With only days to live after being diagnosed with cancer, Heather Cutting marries Trevor Collings in the chapel at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Photo by Simon Finlay

Cancer sufferer Heather Cutting, 48, and her partner Trevor Collings, 47, tied the knot at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital today, in front of 40 of their closest family and friends.

The couple, who met 11 years ago when Mr Collings parked outside her previous home in Gimmingham, moved to Chapel Road at Roughton eight years ago after finding their “dream bungalow”.

They had almost finished renovating their home when she became ill on New Year’s Eve last year.

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