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The looting continues. 9000 families homeless - UK Indymedia : In the first 3 months of this year, house repossessions jumped 17% compared with last year. More than 9000 households, unable to service their debt, were ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Video: Manchester Pride sees thousands celebrate their 21st pride : by James Park for PinkNews.co. uk The LGBT community of Manchester have celebrated the 21st Manchester pride with hundreds of thousands lining the streets with rainbow flags and 'I Love MCR' banners supporting the fightback after the riots that broke ... PinkNews.co.uk

Not the “only gay in the village” : DUMFRIES and Galloway Lesbian, Gay , Bisexual and Transgender ( LGBT ) Centre is launching a new project targeting its community and their families in rural parts Wigtownshire. The initiaive aims to make the lives of isolated LGBT better by giving them ... United Kingdom | Ireland

The looting continues. 9000 families homeless - UK Indymedia : In the first 3 months of this year, house repossessions jumped 17% compared with last year. More than 9000 households, unable to service their debt, were ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Travellers backed in eviction fight ... Holland and Belgium to help halt the eviction of families living on the UK's largest illegal travellers' site. It is claimed the planned eviction of almost 100 families living on Dale Farm, near Basildon, could leave up to 400 people homeless . ...

Maltese LGBT community faces legal anomaly after discriminatory rule is revoked by Stephen Gray for PinkNews.co. uk The rights of the gay community in Malta have been left in disarray after EU intervention saw a restriction on migration struck from the law books. The central Mediterranean group of islands which makes up the country ...

'Urgent need' to find sex offender Graeme Jarman : "It was inflicted on a defenceless elderly lady, in her own home, minding her own business, in the middle of the day. "The level of injuries inflicted were dreadful, to say the least. "All the more reason for us to make this appeal to the public to ... BBC News

Winter fuel scandal : A city MP has criticised the UK Government for slashing the amount paid out in the coldest months, at a time when energy firms are putting their prices up, leaving the elderly with a 'double whammy' this winter. Almost 100000 pensioners in the city ... Glasgow Evening Times

Want to end mental health stigma? Stop medicalising distress : But I think if we want to end stigma in mental health once and for all, we need to look deeper into the whole role of the mental health system. Terry Simpson is chair of the UK Advocacy Network, a service-user controlled federation of advocacy projects ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Mum denies murdering toddler son : She appeared at the High Court in Glasgow for a preliminary hearing. Judge Lord Turnbull adjourned the hearing until a trial due to begin in November this year. The case is expected to last up to seven weeks and likely to involve a number of expert ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Dancers tackle sexual diseases : The sessions , which have reached 8500 young people in the UK already, are delivered to groups of 300 students at a time, running for two hours each morning for a week. More in-depth sessions about sexual health, especially AIDS and HIV will be run in ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Cancer Research Receives Charity from Various Events : With strong determination and generosity participants of the relay for Cancer Research UK , continued the race struggling with the extreme weather conditions. The total number of teams participated doubled the previous limit reaching the mark of 70 in ... TopNews United States

New counselling legislation for women considering abortion : ... and informed choice, so that whatever a woman's final decision she has had the opportunity to really understand her options and made an informed decision. This is the only way to reduce the mental health implications of this life changing procedure. United Kingdom | Ireland

British woman asks for kidney online : By Martin Beckford, Health Correspondent Saira Khan, 37, made her plea through a charity that finds online “Good Samaritans” who want to give organs to people they feel empathy towards. Unlike “transplant tourists” who pay for trafficked organs in ... United Kingdom | Ireland

A new name for sailing trust charity : The only sail training charity based in the north east, OYT North has traditionally provided development programmes for people throughout the entire UK . The charity said its programmes challenge participants to open their minds, learn new skills, ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Climate change hits mental health : "The evidence is growing, with studies in EU with a longer data base, which is directly linking climate change to the floods in the UK and doing term studies of ocean temperatures. On the mental health side, Dr Suzie Burke, a senior psychologist with ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Calls for medicinal marijuana : ... the scientific case for using cannabis medicinally is very strong”. In the US, 16 states currently allow patients access to medical marijuana , while a UK company provides cannabis -based Sativex on prescription in the UK , Canada, New Zealand and Spain. SX News (blog)

Implications of an ageing population : Dauntingly, the number of people dropping into the “oldest old ” category is projected to reach an eye-watering 3.6 million by 2035, accounting for 5% of the total UK population. Wales entered the record books last year with the world's oldest living ... United Kingdom | Ireland

New homes seen as threat to Welsh language in Carmarthen : The fear is that the next wave of new arrivals will be older people , retiring to Carmarthenshire, attracted by the relatively low property prices and the proximity of lovely countryside and beaches. But, it is felt, many of them will not bother to ... The Guardian

Not the “only gay in the village” : The year-long project begins with a wide ranging publicity campaign, which portrays lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people, adults, older people and families in an effort to make the LGBT community more visible across Dumfries and Galloway ... United Kingdom | Ireland

UK properties in top school areas cost 35% more, research shows : Other state schools at the top of the house price league include St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar in Orpington, Kent, which is ranked as the second best state school in the UK , as well as tenth placed Queen Elizabeth's School in north London , ... Property Wire

Lawyers get on their bike for children's hospitals Four lawyers from Eversheds and three surveyors from SEGRO will take part in the charity bike challenge, with the jointly raised funds donated to Cardiff HTC University Hospital Wales , Alder Hey Haemotology Treatment Centre HTC in Liverpool, ...

Doctor's Diary: Now you're never too old to have an operation By James LeFanu The current trend for performing what would previously have been thought “heroic” operations on the elderly has spawned a new speciality: geriatric surgery. It all started 20 years ago with an account in the prestigious New England ...

Talking of depression is a good thing, but saying the right thing is key by Ewan Hilton, Western Mail TIME To Change, England's mental health anti-discrimination campaign, is currently focusing on It's Time To Talk. It is trying to break the silence around mental health , something we wholeheartedly agree with. ...

Cancer mum was brave to the end : The 66-year-old Didcot mum-of-three raised more than £1750 for cancer charities and tested a new drug before she died last month after fighting the disease since October. Her daughter Emily Applegate, who is manager of the Cancer Research UK charity ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Homelessness charity launches London lodgings scheme ... : Depaul UK , the UK's largest youth homelessness charity, is recruiting members of the public in London who are willing to offer a room to a young person who ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Ken Loach: 'the ruling class are cracking the whip' : He took his cameras to a school run by Save the Children in Kenya, for homeless boys from Nairobi, for instance, that was set up along the lines of a British public school; the children are shown blowing bugles, marching, reading books including The ... The Guardian

British charity workers assess Tripoli danger : On Saturday, the UK government announced that it was to provide £3m of urgent humanitarian support for those affected by the conflict in Libya. The UK's support will provide surgical teams and medicines for up to 5000 wounded and food and household ... BBC News

Skydivers take plunge for charity : She added the event takes place annually and next year's jumpers are already being recruiting. To take part in next year's skydive contact a member of the hospice's fundraising team by emailing community@lakelandsdaycarehospice.org. uk or by calling ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Corporate homicide law extended to prisons and police cells : But from 1 September a clause in the Corporate Homicide Act 2007 will come into place extending the law to cover all deaths in police custody suites, prison cells, mental health detention facilities, young offenders institutions and immigration suites. ... The Guardian

Increase in South West HIV cases : It is one of the fastest growing conditions in the UK and if left untreated, can lead to Aids . Health specialists want to encourage more routine testing. Al Green, project lead for Healthy Gay Cornwall from the Primary Care Trust, said it was important ... BBC News

Help us tackle the stigma of mental ill health ... ways to promote positive attitudes towards mental ill health and is keen to work in partnership with other agencies to take this work forward. For more information on the work of the Ayrshire Anti-stigma group ...

100 mile cycle ride to raise awareness of mental health issues Known as the "peasant's poet", John Clare is one of England's most significant poets of the romantic era but is also well known for having been affected by mental illness for most of his life. In 1838 he spent four years in an asylum at High Beach in ...

Brothers jailed for £27.5m share con : They sold shares to around 1700 victims, many of them elderly or vulnerable, across the UK . Although the shares were worth little or nothing, or in some cases did not exist at all, the gang are known to have made £27.5m, which was paid into five UK ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Martin Green: Give patients 'choice' over when they die : Terminally ill patients who want to commit suicide should be able to receive medical help to die, a government adviser on care for the elderly has said. By Tim Ross, Social Affairs Editor Martin Green, a dementia expert for the Department of Health, ... Telegraph.co.uk

Hurricane Irene: New York issues evacuation orders : The elderly man, reliant on a walking frame to get around, said he had little choice. "How can I get out of Coney Island? What am I going to do? Run with this walker?" Are you in the path of Hurricane Irene? How are you preparing for the storm? ... BBC News

Morocco: four orphaned after parents plunge to their deaths one day apart Tilly looks after our elderly mother, she will miss her enormously.” A West Mercia police spokesperson said that they had made some “initial enquiries” but the matter had been transferred to the coroner in Wiltshire, where Mrs Lamb is being repatriated ...

Eddie Bone: A sensible prescription for an English Parliament : They see things like free prescriptions in Scotland, while in England they have to pay. They see the Scottish elderly getting subsidised care; they see free university education for Scottish students when English students are landed with thousands of ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Duchy College lecturer in African adventure : Andrew Gunderson spent two weeks in the village of Rongai, Kenya volunteering on behalf of The Vanessa Grant Trust, which is a UK registered charity established to fund and support educational projects in Rongai. Andrew, who worked in the neighbouring ... United Kingdom | Ireland

Cancer-stricken boy inspires charity fun day : Fewer than 100 children are diagnosed with the disease in the UK each year. Tyler's Auntie Katie Vaughan said: “I wanted to organise a fun day that is as fun as Tyler where children can come and enjoy themselves, but which would raise money for a very ... Derbyshire Times

Richard Branson pulls out of charity swim : Cancer Research UK is a charity that is close to my heart." Two members of the public joining the celebrity team were picked from a host of people who signed themselves up for swimming trials in Brighton in August. Primary schoolteacher Olly White, 33, ... Telegraph.co.uk

Charity cricket clash raises £6200 : A charity cricket match organised by Sheffield-based specialist construction products supplier SIG raised a remarkable £6200 for Cancer Research UK . The charity match pitted SIG cricketers against a team from one of its biggest customers, ... Sheffield Telegraph

Justin Bieber's Christmas album for charity Teen sensation Justin Bieber will record a special album to raise money for charity this Christmas. The "Baby" hitmaker has been secretly recording tracks for the album.

Police vow over booze related crime in Northampton after town performs poorly ... Sergeant Ali Quinn, of the alcohol harm reduction unit, said: “Alcohol and its related harm and criminality have become an issue across most of the UK , and these issues have placed an increased burden on police and health providers in dealing with ...

Barrow among worst in UK for booze deaths : “Alcohol has always come bottom of the list for governments which are more interested in illegal drugs and criminality . Part of the problem is that it's embedded in our culture. We need to let people know that alcohol is a drug too, and if you use it ... United Kingdom | Ireland