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Campaigns & Issues
£500m funding gap for older people’s social care – and widening
Age UK launches Care in Crisis 2012 report highlighting the social care crisis
Age UK’s new Care in Crisis 2012 report shows that this year spending on older people’s social care in England has fallen half a billion pounds short of even maintaining the inadequate levels of provision in place when the Coalition came to power.
News
NHS performing well despite financial pressures
The latest quarterly monitoring report from The King’s Fund shows that NHS performance is continuing to hold up, despite warnings from MPs this week about the scale of the financial challenge it is facing.
The report shows that performance against key indicators for waiting times and infection rates remains on track, although national statistics mask significant variation in performance between hospitals.
Competitions & Fun
Win a copy of We'll Take Manhattan on DVD
Relive the Swinging 60s and the birth of British fashion in WE’LL TAKE MANHATTAN, out on DVD on 30 January 2012, from Universal Playback. Take home the compelling true story which defined style for a generation in this one-off drama starring Karen Gillan (Doctor Who).
Shown on BBC Four on Thursday 26 January 2012, We’ll Take Manhattan focuses on an unpredictable and electric photoshoot for British Vogue in 1962 New York. It reveals how visionary photographer David Bailey (Aneurin Barnard - Ironclad) refused to conform and insisted on using an unconventional and unknown model for the June cover, Jean Shrimpton (Gillan). Over the course of a freezing week in Manhattan, David Bailey realised he had found his muse - someone both he and his camera had fallen in love with.
Advertorial
Welcome to 2012 and a very Happy New Year to all Silver Travellers
There’s a prize to be won every day during January including a week’s holiday in sunny Cyprus.
We really enjoy receiving your holiday and travel reviews and you can find a wealth of information, hints and tips about travel for the over 50’s on Silver Travel Advisor.
Health & Wellbeing
Phil Tufnell calls for runners for £500,000 marathon world record attempt
Phil Tufnell, former England cricketer and Brain Tumour UK Patron, is calling on the people of Britain to take part in RelayGB, Britain’s world record attempt for distance relay running.
RelayGB is an ambitious challenge that will see hundreds of runners covering 3,100 miles in 119 non-stop, back to back marathons while raising £500,000 in aid of Brain Tumour UK.
Property & Finance
Bank of granny and granddad
Struggling young people are being forced to ask their grandparents for help with house deposits - as their parents cannot spare any cash, a report says.
The Taylor Wimpey study, based on interviews with 1,000 young people, found one in ten has turned to their grandparents for help to buy a home.
Lifestyle
Love is in the air! Send your garden a-flutter on Valentine’s Day
With National Nest Box Week just around the corner, Nature’s Feast, the UK’s leading manufacturer of food and accessories for wild birds, is offering up its top tips and unique insight to help ensure our gardens have the flock factor come spring.
With some garden bird species sadly in decline, National Nest Box Week is the ideal time to put up nest boxes to help protect a variety of wild birds throughout the breeding season. Not only do nest boxes provide shelter, they also create the perfect environment for birds to breed and raise a brood.
Travel & Leisure
Best of British B&B revival in the New Forest
If you go down to the woods today be sure of a big surprise. In the enchanting New Forest, B&B landladies are fighting back against budget hotels and the rules, regulations, hairnets and pinnies which some perceive as their traditional image.
Instead they offer comfortable beds, crisp cotton sheets, wonderful local produce breakfasts and a friendly welcome along with mod cons such as Wi-Fi and flat screen TVs . . . as well as an acorn and oak leaf symbol which marks a New Forest Tourism Association quality stamp of excellence.
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