Care Cost Left Pensioner On The Brink Of Bankruptcy
An elderly man forced to the brink of bankruptcy by his council’s demands for care home costs has forced a rethink of the way individuals’ assets are valued.
Read MoreAn elderly man forced to the brink of bankruptcy by his council’s demands for care home costs has forced a rethink of the way individuals’ assets are valued.
Read MoreThe girlfriend of the latest Suffolk Strangler suspect wept as she declared: “He’s innocent.” Former QE2 chef Steve Wright, 48, was arrested in a dawn raid on his home in Ipswich’s red light district, where he is said to have regularly taken prostitutes.
{mosimage}The fork-lift truck driver, a twice-divorced father of one, was held less than 24 hours after the first suspect, Tom Stephens, 37, was also arrested over the murders of five prostitutes.
Wright was led from his flat wearing his dressing gown. His blue Ford Mondeo was taken away for inspection by police as a team of forensic officers combed his flat for possible clues.
Police described the arrest as “significant”.
Wright’s partner of five years, Pamela Goodman, emerged from a police station in tears after being briefly allowed to see him.
“Steve is innocent and I am confident that the police now know that none of this is true,” she told a close friend. “I can provide alibis for him when he is supposed to have killed those women.”
Read MoreA charity was criticised today after allowing a killer who worked for the Duchess of York to design its Christmas card. Social welfare charity Miracles, which offers “crisis funding, positive thinking and practical support to those with nowhere else to turn”, invited Jane Andrews to come up with the image.
Read MoreA website has been set up by a watchdog to allow patients see how private and voluntary hospitals and health providers are performing. The Healthcare Commission service allows people to run postcode searches for private centres to see how they are doing in meeting 32 core standards.
Read MoreLondon’s Underground system remains wide open to terrorist attack because the Government has been hugely complacent about safety, the Tories have warned.
Read MoreMore needs to be done to protect the public from dangerous paedophiles living in their communities, Welsh politicians said yesterday. Their calls came as a report revealed Craig Sweeney, who was jailed for sexually assaulting a three-year-old Cardiff girl, had inappropriately approached children while he was on licence for a previous conviction.
Read MoreThe care home system across Scotland was branded “confused and inconsistent” by an official watchdog yesterday, after it emerged that a council had refused to cover the costs of an elderly resident just because he had owned a house nine years before.
Read MoreSkills for Care’s national annual conference will take place at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham on February 27 – 28 2007. The theme this year is partnerships.
Read MoreScotland’s reliance on methadone is failing to tackle the damage wreaked on society by drug abuse, it was claimed yesterday, as new figures showed a massive rise in the use of the heroin substitute.
Read MoreRapists and paedophiles living in Wales are this year receiving a Christmas card from the police, we can reveal. South Wales Police confirmed the decision to send out the cards last night, saying it was a reminder to sex criminals that the force knew where they were living.
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