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Norfolk Beer festival helps local cancer unit
Cheers to Priscilla Bacon Lodge
Specialist palliative care unit receives donation from Norwich Beer Festival
Edited by Andy Porter editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
A local specialist palliative care unit has received a significant donation from the organisers of the recent Norwich Beer Festival. Representatives from Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust’s [NCH&C] Priscilla Bacon Lodge received a cheque for £3,300 from Norwich and Norfolk Campaign for Real Ale [CAMRA] at an event held on 26 January.
The 16–bed inpatient unit, on Unthank Road, Norwich, is provided by NCH&C and offers specialist palliative care, advice and support to people with life–limiting illnesses, such as cancer or motor–neurone disease, and their family and friends.
Norwich dad told to get off First bus when son had epileptic fit
A father from Earlham has spoken of his anger at being told to get off a First bus when his young son was having an epileptic fit.
Emma Knights and David Freezer
Saturday, January 21, 2012
2:30 PM
Peter Benning, 25 and of Gilbard Road, Earlham, said his family intended to register a complaint with First about what happened when he and his two-year-old son Reece-Lee were travelling towards Earlham on the number 21 First bus on Tuesday, at about 12.45pm
Mr Benning, who lives with his partner Hannah Williams, 31, said: “We were coming home from the Hamlet Centre when Reece-Lee started fitting on the bus. I said to the bus driver, ‘you need to stop the bus because my son is having a fit.’
“He said okay and stopped the bus. He opened the doors and said, ‘you have to get off’.”
Welcome news for blind and visually impaired people in Norfolk
Norfolk County Council u-turn on free bus travel for the blind
Dan Grimmer Monday, January 16, 2012
4:46 PM
Blind and visually impaired people in Norfolk will be able to get round the clock free bus travel, after an 11th hour change of heart by council leaders.
