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Free passports, 2
- Wednesday, 01 May 2013
Reading the letter "Nothing free until we're too old", April edition 2013, perhaps this will help Dawn Scott Marsden, with a little amusement.
I was born in Coventry in August 1929 (important), one of the cousins was born in Chesterfield in July 1932. We moved to Chesterfield in 1933 for my father to find work, he was an engineer.
Give your money back - no way
- Monday, 29 April 2013
I was disgusted to hear on the radio this morning that Ian Duncan-Smith is proposing that pensioners who “don’t need it” should give their winter fuel allowance and their free bus pass back to the government. What a daft idea.
A few thoughts on this:
Bowel cancer test kit
- Monday, 29 April 2013
Your article in the April Mature Times has prompted me to write about a Bowel Cancer Test sent by post.
The budget is a shambles
- Monday, 29 April 2013
The budget, like so many things in this country is a shambles and the so-called 'reforms' (badly needed), are little more than penny-pinching, money grabbing exercises. I will concentrate on the one uppermost in my mind - Royal Mail.
On line payments
- Thursday, 25 April 2013
Like the Burns',(22 April 2013 "Buying on-line - Almost a scam") I too had problems with an on-line order.
Some useful tips
- Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Sometimes a friend finds Mature Times for me in the library. I am housebound and I look forward to reading your newspaper.
I can't remember if you have a column for topical tips, but I would like to tell you of a few things I have discovered.
Hospital nightmare
- Wednesday, 24 April 2013
I may be too late in telling my story but I have been troubled by the state of my mother when I visited her in a Lancashire Hospital.
Mum was living at home and doing quite well and lived independently. My brother found her collapsed across her bed. She had suffered a stroke. Her left side was affected.
Baroness Thatcher's funeral
- Monday, 22 April 2013
I watched with pride Baroness Thatcher Funeral.
Not withstanding the controversy of the funeral. I watched with pride the ceremony that is part of the British tradition that we should treasure.
A nurse's reply
- Monday, 22 April 2013
Recently the news is full of incidents where the NHS , Nurses and Carers are guilty of terrible neglect of the elderly and disabled.
These scandalous practices need to be highlighted , but I wonder how those who are caring nurses and carers feel?
