Counsel and Care, the national charity getting the best care and support for older people, their families and carers, has launched a new campaign to produce a national manifesto for older people for the next General Election.

The Eve Appeal charity, which fundraises for groundbreaking research into gynaecological cancers, is searching for women volunteers around the country who would like to help with local events, support local ovarian cancer patients and their families, and promote research into ovarian cancer.

On Sunday 15 June 2008 from 10am-6pm hundreds of carers and their families from local Crossroads member schemes across the North West are meeting up at Blackpool Zoo for a big, fun day out.

If  you (or someone you know) served under British command in the second world war or were displaced from Poland during 1939-45, then you (or they) may be eligible for long term residential and nursing care at the Government's Ilford Park Polish home in Devon.

Called "Little Poland", it currently accommodates around 100 veterans.

J Mellor, Chairman Wolverhampton and District United Ex-Service Council

TV Presenter Noel Edmonds is to launch a charity run which promises men a better chance of surviving a disease which kills around 14,000 men a year in the UK.

Chocolate lovers can now nip to ASDA and get a delicious box of chocolates featuring the famous Calendar Girls - knowing that for each box purchased they will be making a donation to the cancer charity Leukaemia Research.

This summer people across the UK are being urged to help end the suffering of millions of working horses and donkeys across the globe. The Brooke, the UK’s largest overseas equine welfare charity, is appealing to the public to sign up to Horses in Need 2008 - its national fundraising campaign - now in its second successful year.