Glenbrook Property want to demolish what was the UK’s oldest working cinema
Toyoko Inns ignored The Crown, spiritual home of Brum music, for more than a decade
These treasures should be owned by Birmingham, for Brummies, Forever.
Two words for our new council: Civic Radicalism
The incredibly right Joe Lycett is still the only good guest to go on Laura Kuenssberg's show.
He nearly got her fired, and she hates being reminded of it, so don't RT.
The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after.
And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before.
If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from Father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early, you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too.
Saw this & thought I'd repost.
This is Trevor Fisher, an inpatient in @ArthurRankHouse in Cambridgeshire, speaking to @Channel4News this week.
I am a palliative care specialist and Trevor’s interview has devastated me.
His hospice has just found out that in 6 months, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust will withdraw its £800k funding.
This means that 9 of the hospice’s 16 beds will close, denying patients like Trevor the precious end-of-life care they need.
In total, 200 people a year in Cambridgeshire will now be forced to die in an overcrowded hospital instead of the hospice environment they so longed for. Some will doubtless end up dying on trolleys in corridors - we witness this far too often, these days & I can tell you, it is barbaric.
@CUH_NHS says it has made this “very difficult decision” following a “value for money assessment” - confirming what I have long known as a doctor, that too often, patients with terminal illnesses are treated as second class citizens whose lives simply don’t matter as much as other people's.
Yet the real responsibility here lies not with the NHS trust but with the current government, who is forcing the NHS nationwide to cut clinical services in order to meet impossible “efficiency savings” (what weasel words those are).
These cuts were necessary, say @CUH_NHS, “in order to maintain core services within a reduced budget” - that is to say, the reduced budget they are now receiving from this government.
So this is on you, @wesstreeting, and on you @UKLabour. You've chosen to do this & now patients like Trevor must live - and die - with your choices.
I believe that the measure of a civilised country is how well it cares for its most vulnerable members. The difference between politicians and me is that I look the palliative care patients they are failing in the eye.
So I will put it to you directly, Mr Streeting.
We are still a rich country capable of affording decent, humane palliative care for all. Do you really care so little for dying people that you are happy to fail them on your watch?
Thank you @channel4news for covering this story.
#palliativecare
#hospicecare
#NHS