Call over elderly
Tax breaks should be provided by the Treasury to pay for social and residential care of the elderly a former cabinet minister will say today.
Stephen Byers is giving a lecture arguing that the cost of social care is one of the biggest emerging issues in society.
Source:- The Times, Thursday September 7 2006, page 2
Women migrants ‘suffer double discrimination’
Western governments must do more to protect women from forced migration, sex trafficking, forced marriages and employment abuses, a UN Population Fund report has said.
Ex-boyfriend cuddled dying ‘overdose’ women
An ex-boyfriend told an inquest in Cardiff how he watched his former lover die slowly of a dugs overdose in line with her wishes yesterday.
Ashley Wheeler, 57, took Valium and codeine and then called her ex-boyfriend to tell him what she had done. Vernon Jones, 47, went to her home but did not call an ambulance as he said Wheeler did not want him to.
Source: Western Mail, Thursday 7 September 2006