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Dr. Richard
Taylor.
The Independent MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
for Wyre Forest
Find out
more about YOUR M.P.
www.doctortaylor.info
and what he has been doing in Parliament
HEATWAVE
On Friday the Met Office issued
a heatwave alert for England and Wales, saying a heatwave is
to hit the UK bringing soaring day and night time temperatures
and thundery showers throughout the week.
London temperatures will rise
steadily from about 29C on Sunday to about 32C by the end of
the week with the remainder of the UK climbing from 22C on
Sunday to about 29C on Friday.
The Department of Health has
asked people to check up on vulnerable friends, relatives and
neighbours. NHS staff are expecting a surge of elderly and ill
patients suffering from the heat.
TO STAY COOL
The 'official'
advice - although you might think some it a little too
late-in-the-day
- Shade south and west-facing
windows
- Replace metal blinds with
curtains with white linings to reflect heat outwards where
possible.
- Paint buildings and
surrounding walls white to reflect heat
- Plant small trees and shrubs
around buildings
TORY "SLEAZE" in Wyre Forest
"Read
All A-Bout It"
EDITORIAL
Is it not possible to detect a faint trace of 'double standards'
in operation in this affair?
Cllr.
Mumshad Ahmed has the Conservative Whip
withdrawn because .. in the words of his
former party leader .. "..he has dramatically failed to meet
the highest standards of behaviour .. expected from a member of the
Conservative Party" .. and he is expected to resign from
the party.
Yet his behaviour is
still good enough for the Conservatives to expect him to remain as a
Councillor - though acting in a independent manner.
[Though NOT,
please note, as a member of Independent CHC_Ed]
So ..
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NOT GOOD
ENOUGH TO BE
".. A LIT-TLE CON-SER-VAT-IVE" |
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STILL GOOD
ENOUGH TO BE
A COUNCILLOR IN WYRE FOREST |
DOUBLE STANDARDS ?
You make your own mind up .. .. !
A 'Cost-Cutters' Olympics
which
is just right for these financially stringent times
OOOOO
This
line of Capital Os in NOT intended to look like
the Olympic logo (which is a Copyright design)
A routine check by auditors
KPMG has uncovered a
shortfall of between £60m to £100m in the 2012 Olympics
budget.
They found what they call .."additional
spending commitments" regarding compensation to be
paid to firms which have been forced to move from the Olympic
site in Stratford, east London.
Two senior members of staff of
the London Development Agency (LDA), the Mayor of
London's economic and business unit, have been suspended from
the Olympic Legacy Directorate (OLD), a department within the
LDA.
The discrepancy relates to a failure to put aside enough money
to compensate businesses previously based at the former
industrial site which is now being transformed into the
centre-piece of the 2012 Olympic Games.
An LDA spokesman said the
funding gap could be absorbed through cost cutting
and insisted there was no evidence of wrongdoing.
“We're not pretending it's great news .. "-
LDA spokesman.
[Isn't it interesting that
'brilliant' accountants, with an International reputation,
can't pin the number down to less than "the odd
£40,000,000" ?_Ed]
Cancer Referral to Speed Up
Primary care
trusts would be required to pay for private consultations if NHS
hospitals cannot meet the timescale set for patients in England
suspected of suffering from cancer.
Ministers are due
to announce that they will have the right to see a Cancer Treatment
Specialist within two weeks _ and that there could be financial
penalties for failure to keep to the two-week limit.
Currently, this
standard is only a target.
And our New Speaker is ...
After three rounds of voting.
Tory MP John Bercow
was elected Speaker.
The self-styled
"clean-break candidate" has previously announced he
would repay £6,500 in capital gains tax after disclosures
that he had "flipped" his second home from his
constituency address to his London flat.
How he has been received
by the Press:
"this 'maverick'
46-year-old" ..
" 'bumptious' and 'sanctimonious' at the same
time (!)"
"still feels 'very sore
and vulnerable' " ..
"has moved from the hard
right to be at home with New Labour, even though he kept his
'Conservative' label" ..
"4 weeks ago he was
shouting "He's a nutter," in the
chamber .. just what he'll have to crack-down on"
"The Tory MP's conversion to a New Labour way of thinking
is said to date from the time he married, at 39, Sally Illman,
a Labour activist. Her views had also moved from right to left
since she had started as a right-wing Young Conservative who
also urged an end to immigration, before embracing Labour.
Some Tories like to joke: "The
trouble with John is that he discovered sex and the Labour
party at the same time."
"The decision yesterday will either be a triumph, or it
will be a disaster. It is difficult to say which. .. a quiet
mediocrity seems unlikely. ..a young, eloquent, liberal and an
avowed moderniser, he is obviously superior to his
predecessor. There is every chance that Mr. Speaker Bercow
might be remembered as a great holder of the office, yet the
possibility that it may go dreadfully wrong is also present.
He could overdo it. or he could underdo it, or he could even
do both at once."
John Bercow - CV
John Simon Bercow (born 19
January, 1963 in Edgware, London), the son of a Jewish taxi
driver
-
1980's attended Finchley
Manorhill Comprehensive, then University of Essex ..
considered one of Brtiain's best potential star tennis
players
-
1986 elected as a
Conservative councillor in the London Borough of Lambeth,
serving for four years
-
1987 appointed the
youngest Deputy Group Leader in the United Kingdom
graduating with First Class Honours in Government
appointed the National Chairman of the Federation of
Conservative Students
appointed as Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Collegiate
Forum by Norman Tebbit to head the campaign for student
support in the run-up to the 1987 General Election
joined a merchant bank
-
1988 joined the lobbying
firm Rowland Sallingbury Casey, becoming a board director
within five years
-
1987 unsuccessful
Conservative candidate in the 1987 General Election in
Motherwell, and again at the 1992 General Election in
Bristol South
-
1995 appointed as a
Special Adviser to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury,
Jonathan Aitken, (after Aitken's resignation to fight a
libel action) served as a Special Adviser to the Secretary
of State for National Heritage, Virginia Bottomley
-
1996 paid £1,000 to hire
a helicopter so that he could attend the selection
meetings for two safe Conservative parliamentary seats on
the same day - Buckingham and Surrey Heath - and was
selected as the candidate for Buckingham
-
1997 MP for the
constituency of Buckingham, majority of 12,386, since
being elected in served in the Shadow Cabinet under
Michael Howard. a member of the right-wing Monday Club
-
2001 Shadow Cabinet "..my
lack of ruthlessness would prevent me from rising any
further through the ranks"
supported the ban on MPs becoming members of the
Monday Club, an organisation of which he is a former
member
-
2002 Defied a 3-line Whip
on the bill to allow unmarried gay and heterosexual
couples to adopt children and resigned from the front
bench
"I am about as likely to "meet an Eskimo
in the desert" as Duncan Smith will win the next
general election"
-
2003 Michael Howard
appointed Bercow as Shadow Secretary of State for
International Development
-
2005 General Election
retained seat by a margin of 18,129 votes
2006 made a Patron of the Tory Reform Group
-
2009 22 June, elected as
the 157th Speaker of the House of Commons and so became
the first Jewish Speaker and the first Speaker to be
elected by an exhaustive ballot.
.. has a long-standing
interest in Burma and has frequently raised issues of
democracy and genocide in the country
.. runs the Advanced Speaking and Campaigning course, which
has trained over 600 Conservatives, including several current
MPs
.. has lectured in the United States to students of the
Leadership Institute
WHERE THE HECK ARE THEY ?
Now we've had the EU Elections, I
bet you're wondering just where those countries are (and where their
capitals are) ?
Try these little tests and see how much you know about our neighbours in
Europe.
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/mappuzzle/europe-puzzle.html
"E-ee A-ww .. .. E-ee A-ww .."
The 'New Sound' from Westminster ..
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir
Paul Stephenson has been holding a series of talks with
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer over the
allegations of fraud by MPs.
New expense allegations have arisen after the Police
"Economic and Specialist Crime Command", headed by
the Metropolitan Police's temporary Assistant Commissioner
Janet Williams, a former Special Branch Commander, launched a criminal
inquiry into an alleged misuse of expenses by a small
number of MPs and peers
It is alleged that some 50 MPs have
claimed expenses for more than the rates of Council Tax tax
published by the local councils for their 'second' homes -
in the latest Daily Telegraph revelations.
Who's involved ? Well .. it's
[As Ian Hislop's always saying on HIGNFY .. "Allegedly"_Ed]
That former Labour Farming minister
Elliot Morley* .. again !
And Labour MP, David Chaytor*
And Labour peer(ess), Baroness Uddin
And Labour MP Eric Illsley
And former minister Beverley Hughes
And former Home Secretary David Blunkett
And government Whip Mark Tami
And Tory MPs David Willetts and Jeremy Hunt [Tories
.. that makes a change_Ed]
* Both
have already announced they will stand down as MPs after
it emerged they claimed interest payments for mortgages they
had paid off.
18 of the 50 politicians accused over
their council tax claims have apparently already made
re-payments to the Commons Fees Office.
"E-ee A-ww, E-ee A-ww .."
And just when you were thinking that the
Lib-Dems were the new "Mr. Clean"s of Westminster ..
..
The biggest figure mentioned yet - estimated to be well into
SEVEN figures !
Those "..ordinary coppers will
be patrolling their beat .. along .. .. Westminster
Green", looking into money laundering allegations
over the Liberal Democrats' acceptance of £2.4m from a donor
who was later convicted of fraud.
This 'megga' donation from Michael
Brown* boosted the party's 2005 election campaign and helped
put it in the resurgent position it now holds.
*This is the same Michael Brown who was convicted of fraud
in 2008 but vanished last month before being sentenced to
seven years in jail.
One of Brown's victims of his fraud,
Robert Mann (already suing the party to get his money back)
has instructed his lawyers to ask police to investigate
whether the party breached the 2002 Proceeds of Crime Act
(i.e. 'Money Laundering') - claiming that the Liberal
Democrats were using "stolen money".
"The money was used by Mr Brown for
something totally opposite to what the purpose of the
investment was. The monies, as we found out, or a big part of
them, wound up with the Liberal Democrats, and in my mind
anybody that did even a modicum of checking would have known
that these monies belonged to me and not to Mr Brown. It's
absolutely shocking how any major political party or any
political party in England wouldn't want to return monies that
are clearly stolen, absolutely traceable to me personally, and
the individual that gave them the money is now a convicted
felon."
Robert Mann - Californian
Tax-lawyer
The head of the Economic Crime Unit,
Detective Chief Superintendent Stephen Head, said:
"On the face of it they seem to be serious
allegations."
City of London Police have confirmed to
the BBC programme 'Newsnight' that they have received a
complaint against the Liberal Democrats which they are looking
into.
COMMENT
[Oh 'Come Back' John Major ..
and 'Good', 'Old-Fashioned' Tory
Sleeze ..
when the worst that could be alleged was a bit of 'honest'
"rumpy-pumpy" with the 'Bad Egg' of the Tory Party
!_Ed]
We refer, in a most gentlemanly fashion, to the good lady's
caution to the country regarding Salmonella.
"The Artist" Gordon Brown .. at work ..
"The
White-Wash"
"The Black-Out"
| Government
Enquiry into Iraq War
Gordon
Brown
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Government
Publication of MP's Expenses
Gordon Brown
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"I
Say, I Say, I Say .."
"Yes, What Is It You Say ?"
"What
Costs £478,616 - sorry, its now
£603,000 and takes 182 people to
be able to afford it?"
"Why
.. 'Clinging Onto Office', My Dear Boy ..
'Clinging Onto Office!"
Conservative MPs are to pay back another £125,000 in
expenses as a result of the party's scrutiny review of claims - doubling
the amount Tory's are having to re-pay.
The Commons Members
Estimate Committee has published figures showing that 182 MPs have
repaid a total of £478,616 since the 'Expenses Crisis'
began in May.
Cabinet ministers
have so far repaid £23,443
in total .. and this includes four separate payments,
totaling about £800, from Gordon "Mr. Prudence" Brown .. to
correct "inadvertent errors" or for the "avoidance
of doubt" on certain claims.
The Shadow Cabinet have repaid £30,348.
The re-payment
figures include:
| £40,000 |
|
repaid by Care
Services Minister |
|
Phil Hope |
| £36,800 |
|
repaid by |
|
Eliot Morley* |
| £32,976 |
|
repaid by Tourism
Minister |
|
Barbara
Follett |
| £16,800 |
|
repaid by |
|
Eliot Morley** |
| £14,320 |
|
repaid by Labour
MP |
|
Paddy Tipping |
| £12,000 |
|
repaid by Cabinet
minister |
|
Douglas
Alexander |
| £947 |
|
repaid by |
|
David Cameron |
| £1 |
|
reimbursed by
Labour backbencher |
|
Madeleine Moon |
*now banned from
standing as a Labour MP for claiming for a non-existent loan
**this was a sum previously agreed regarding a "genuine
error" on a capital payment
The re-payment figures DO NOT INCLUDE:
|
£22,500 |
|
Labour MP |
|
Margaret Moran |
Nothing so far
repaid
|
£13,000 |
|
Labour MP |
|
David Chaytor |
Only £4,812.46
repaid so far. He has stood down as an MP.
There are a
further 47 MPs who have repaid money they have claimed since April -
but details have yet to be published - for whatever reason .. .. !
The BBC's Political Correspondent, Iain Watson, has made the suggestion
that many MPs were acting before claims for the current parliamentary
year became public, in order to pre-empt questions about their actions.
[The very suggestion .. ..
_Ed]
Top Tip .. in the kitchen
Boil
carrots whole .. then
cut them up to serve.
"By keeping them
whole and chopping them up afterwards you are locking in
nutrients and the taste, so the carrot is better for you all
round."
Lead
researcher Dr Kirsten Brandt, from Newcastle University's
School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development.
They have found that
"boiling before cutting" carrots contained 25%
more of
the
anti-cancer compound falcarinol than those chopped
up first .. and so they are FAR MORE HEALTHY for you
than those cooked 'conventionally'.
"Chopping up
your carrots increases the surface area so more of the
nutrients leach out into the water while they are cooked.
If the
carrot is cut before being boiled, the surface area becomes
much greater - and so the loss of nutrients is increased.
"All you need is
a bigger saucepan."
[Makes sense_Ed]
"The Internet is as Vital as Water and Gas"
So said an 'Opinion' article in
The Times (June 16) by someone called .. Gordon Brown (who
gives his full-time job as 'Prime Minister').
He goes on [Doesn't he ..
!_Ed] ..
"Hi-speed
connection will soon be essential for everyone."
But, of course, he will ensure
that there won't be sufficient funding to give the Hi-Speed
Connection to just Everybody .. just the people in the
middle of the big cities.
Editorial Comment [Well if he
can have his say .. then so can "we".]
Well, that's OK then ! Because in
many of the rural parts of Wyre Forest (and our
surrounding farms and villages are nothing like as remote as
the Welsh hill regions) "we" don't even have the
'Gas' that Gordon was talking about .. some of 'Us' don't even
have Sewers to be connected to (High-Speed or
otherwise).
Perhaps they can lay the fibre-optic cables in the roads at
the same time as they install the Gas-pipes and the Sewers ?
[Perhaps, if they lay the
cables in the sewers (not an unknown practice) that will give
new meaning to the word 'Fibre' - optic ?_Ed]
What should be done, next ..
"The
best result of the crisis over MPs’ allowances is that the
way the House of Commons works could well be changed to make it
more effective at holding the Government to account .. .. and
thus more respected and relevant to voters.
-
I
believe membership of Select Committees should be decided by
the House rather than by party whips.
-
There
should be more ‘free’ votes (not whipped) ..
-
and,
if the Government lost such a vote, it would not be a defeat
for them but a demonstration of reacting to the wishes of
Parliament representing the people.
-
If
there were more ‘free’ votes then the point of debate,
to make Members change their minds, would be restored.
There would be reason for more Members to participate
..
-
and
if the length of all speeches, including those by front
benchers, was limited, this would be possible.
-
Scrutiny
of Bills should be improved so that no longer could large
parts of Bills be passed without any debate including
Government amendments while opposition amendments not
debated automatically fall.
It
will certainly be exciting to see if changes really do happen
and if the present Government grasps the opportunity of
re-connecting with people as a vital election ploy or if the
opposition parties will make all the running."
Dr.
Taylor.
And this is what he has claimed_
Second Home
Allowance
(London one-bedroomed
flat) |
£19,698 |
London
Supplement |
£0 |
| Office expenses |
£6,065 |
Staffing costs |
£53,424 |
| Central Stationary |
£189 |
Stationary & Postage |
£990 |
| I.T. |
£804 |
Staff Cover |
£0 |
| Communications |
£0 |
Travel (Rail) |
£5,314 |
Total
Claims: £86,484
(2007-08)
Compared with_
| Phil.
Hollobone (Kettering) |
£47,737 |
Dennis
Skinner (Bolsover) |
£66,937 |
Tony
Blair *
Prime Minister
(Sedgefield) |
£64,064 |
Michael
Martin *
Commons' Speaker
(Glasgow NE) |
£74,522 |
Alan
Hopkins
(Swansea E) |
£80,546 |
Dr.
Richard Taylor
(Wyre Forest) |
£86,484 |
The
SIXTH most economic - out of 646 Members of
Parliament ..
which range up to £176,190 for Mr. Alistair Carmichael, MP for Orkney
& Shetland - who's £41k Travel expenses are
understandable).
Access
the details of ALL MP's for 2007/08 [Excel
spreadsheet format]
* and this does
not include the 'Grace and Favour' residences at Downing
Street and in the House of Commons included
with their appointments.
_____________________________
And, according to The Telegraph
(20th June)
.. is Dr.
Taylor listed among 'The Flippers' ?
(MPs who put homes on
'expenses')
No, he isn't.
.. is Dr. Taylor listed among 'The Stampers' ?
(MPs who 'lightened the burden' of Stamp
Duty)
No, he isn't.
..is Dr. Taylor listed among the 'Mod Cons' ?
(MPs who had publicly-funded home make-overs)
No, he isn't.
..is Dr. Taylor listed among 'The Mockers' ?
(MPs who made a mockery of expenses
claims)
No, he isn't.
So where IS he listed ?
He's
listed among 'The Saints' _ page 48 of 'The Complete Expenses
Files'
(The 50 MPs who minimised their expenditure and claim on the public purse).
[You know .. it's as re-assuring to know
where he isn't ..
.. as to know where he is _Ed]
"Anyone who had a
heart .. .. "
Concerns that a poor grasp of anatomy could
potentially compromise patient care were underwritten by a team at King's
College London who found that public understanding of basic anatomy has not
improved since a similar survey was conducted 40 years ago.
More than 700 people were asked to look at
outlines of both a male and female body and identify which of several shaded
areas was a particular organ:
less than 50% could correctly place the heart -
only 30% could place the lungs in their correct location,
but more than 85% put the intestines in the right place.
"We thought that the
improvements in education seen since then, coupled with an increased media focus
on medical and health-related topics and growing access to the internet as a
source of medical information, might have led to an increase in patients'
anatomical knowledge, but as it turns out, there has been no significant
improvement in the intervening years,"
said lead researcher John Weinman.
The findings do raise concerns about
doctor-patient communication and quality-of-care issues.
"If people are going to
use the NHS in an effective way they need to be able to communicate and
understand what is said to them - this way we avoid repeat referrals,
unnecessary hospitalisations. It really does matter, particularly as we look
ahead to an NHS where resources are ever tighter." Don
Redding, head of policy at the Picker Institute Europe, a patient research
group.
Answers: Heart -
C, Kidneys -
D, Pancreas - B.
What did YOU score .. .. ?
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Did you know that someone has 'logged' you ..
.. 'logging-on' to this site ?
Details of the
times, dates, duration and locations of mobile phone calls,
numbers called, website visited and addresses e-mailed are
already stored by telecoms companies for 12 months as part
of a voluntary agreement, with the data able to be accessed by
the police and security services, on request.
Now the government
plans to take control of the process (in order, they say, to
comply with an EU directive) and make it easier for
investigators to do their job. So information is going to be
kept for two years - by law - and may be held centrally on a
searchable database.
'Data on all internet
and phone traffic should be recorded to help the fight against
terrorism', according to Sir David Pepper, one of the
UK's former spy chiefs, and former Director (for five years) of
the GCHQ listening centre.
[That's 'that big
place' .. down Cheltenham way .. behind the big fences .. which
we don't talk about .. 'cause it isn't there .. "Keep movin'
along, Sir, you can't stop here!" .. which provides
intelligence on foreign and domestic threats .. so secretive
that, until the 1980s, the government refused to discuss its
existence_Ed]
"It's a
constant arms race, if you like. As more technology, different
technology becomes available, the balance will shift
constantly."
+ AN
OPPORTUNITY TO HALT THE ID SCHEME +
There have
been rumours that the new Home Secretary Alan Johnson is
"reviewing the ID card" programme. They have been
denied, but there is undoubtedly a change of heart among many
back bench Labour MPs. In the last three months several new ones
have said openly - against party policy - that the project
should be cancelled.
Now they have a chance to show they are serious. There is a
chance to halt it, at least temporarily. A delay at this stage
should go a long way to killing the scheme.
The Identity Cards Act 2006 was never a complete system. It left
vast amounts about the card, and the database, enrolment and
enforcement, to be determined in regulations. The first batch of
those regulations has appeared and MPs will be able to vote
against them at a debate scheduled for July. Together they are
far longer than the act itself, and there are numerous points of
revealing detail and sheer bad drafting which give scope for
legal and political attack. If the regulations are not approved
by parliament the whole scheme will be stalled.
Please write to your MP now, *particularly if you have a
Labour MP* and ask them to vote against the new statutory
instruments that would allow the ID scheme to begin.
It is easy to contact your MP via http://www.writetothem.com/
Those key regulations are:
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Application and Issue of ID Card
and Notification of Changes) Regulations 2009
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/draft/ukdsi_9780111480427_en_1
[The detail that you will have to give to the Home Office about
yourself, much much more than the "basic identifying
information" ministers keep referring to.]
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Prescribed Information)
Regulations 2009
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/draft/ukdsi_9780111480434_en_1
[What will be kept on the cards - but not yet anything about the
national identity register database and how it might work.]
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Designation) Order 2009
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/draft/ukdsi_9780111479056_en_1
[The first of potentially many such. Provides for some people to
be forced onto the system because joining will be a condition of
*applying* for another official document that they need.]
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Fees) Regulations 2009
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/draft/ukdsi_9780111479070_en_1
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Information and Code of Practice
on Penalties) Order 2009
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/draft/ukdsi_9780111479087_en_1
[The unfair rules that will be used to punish non-compliance.]
The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Provision of Information without
Consent) Regulations 2009
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/draft/ukdsi_9780111479063_en_1
[Sets out who the information may be passed to once the IPS has
it. Audit trail information will go to: police, intelligence
services, and SOCA, *and to anyone else they authorise* - so we
are immediately beyond government promise - plus HMRC, who can't
however authorise it to be given to third parties. Further,
non-audit trail information - such as document numbers, names
and addresses, signatures and fingerprints, quite enough to be
keys for other searches or massive identity fraud - may be
provided to the Home Office and MoJ, DWP, DoT and FCO. Records
of what information has been given to whom and why may be
destroyed after 12 months or less.]
The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment)
Regulations 2009
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/uksi_20090819_en_1
[Expands the 'ID cards for foreigners' system vastly by
extending it to more categories of people (for example, spouses
of British citizens, visiting artists and academics) who are
only being treated as a threat in order to justify ID cards for
all.]
ACT
F. A. S. T.
ACT
F.A.S.T. is a
new National campaign aimed at helping people to recognise
the signs of stroke, and act to reduce the damage caused and
save lives.
-
FACE
Has the Face fallen to one side
?
Can they Smile ?
-
ARMS
Can they raise both arms - and
keep them raised ?
-
SPEECH
Is their speech slurred ?
-
TIME
Time to call 999 - if you see
ANY of these signs
A
Stroke is an EMERGENCY that requires immediate medical
attention.
Learn
to recognise the signs and call for an Ambulance,
IMMEDIATELY.
__________________________
More than
150,000 people a year have a stroke in the UK. but a Lancet
study, by the University of Edinburgh, found that Surgical
stockings do not cut stroke patients' risk of developing blood
clots, & they had little positive effect.
It was previously thought the tight stockings helped to
increase blood flow through the legs and reduce the formation
of clots.
The Edinburgh team studied over 2,500 stroke patients in
the UK, Italy and Australia, all of whom received routine
care, including aspirin and assisted exercise, and half were
offered surgical stockings as well. After 30 days there was no
significant difference in the blood clot rate in the two
groups but the group given stockings experienced more skin
breaks, ulcers and blisters than those without.
"Abandoning this ineffective and sometimes
uncomfortable treatment will free up valuable resources in our
health services." .. some £7m and 320,000
hours of nursing time a year ..
Professor Martin Dennis University of Edinburgh
Compression stockings are
still recommended for patients who have undergone surgery and for people
travelling on long-haul flights.
Can you help ?
The Dyslexia Petition group have
asked for assistance_
There is a dyslexia petition running on the "Number
10" government website.
You are asked to sign this petition which will help people with
dyslexia to get repeat prescriptions without the shame many
people feel over the embarrassment which the procedure has for
them.
It will also help the people without dyslexia as well as it will
just require a simple email to send your prescriptions in to the
doctors.
So, if you like this idea or just want to help, please
sign it.
It needs over 500 signatures to get anywhere.
The petition "address" or (URL) is_
Petition
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/email-doctors/
Web
site
http://www.sooty5871.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
The past week's 'MONEY MATTERS'
Markets
FTSE 250 recovering
(7400) from 17 June low (7200) but sill short of 11 June high of 7750.
Businesses
Car Manufacturer Volkswagen AG
recovered well to end up level with previous highs of 13 May &
17 June
Davis Service Group shot up on Friday
trading (8.25%) to a monthly high of 334.50
Many other upward trades were only
recovering positions they held at the beginning of the week
Currencies
| £1 buys |
$ 1.6525 US |
<
a cent |
|
$ 1.9054 CAN |
<
Up 3 cents |
|
$ 2.0455 AUS |
=
stable |
|
$ 2.5586 NZ |
> down
a cent |
|
€ 1.1745 EURO |
> down
a cent |
GBP (the Pound) continues on
make good progress against the Taiwanese Dollar - starting this month at 52.1
| £1 buys |
NT$ 54.4 TWD |
3 months continuous
progress from 48.5 low on 30 March |
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