A recommended book
I like the new feature introducing the Mature Times Book Club and I would like to recommend a book for readers of the Mature Times. “First steps though Bereavement” by Sue Mayfield, published by Lion ...
Your Views
Stealthy privatisation of the NHS
Readers may be interested to know that the Health and Social Care Act, 2012, which came in to operation on 1st April, 2013 encourages the NHS to offer its services for tender to any willing provider a ...
Threat to cut pensioners’ Universal Benefits
It’s been announced that free TV licences & winter fuel payments could be stripped from hundreds of thousands of well-off pensioners to subsidise bus fares for under-21s, in plans by Lib Dem leade ...
Shingles vaccine for all
There seems to be a common misconception that the shingles vaccine is available to those aged 70 – 79 years. Those eligible are aged 70 this year, or 79 this year only. At 78 years I have just h ...