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GGH takes court action
GOLDEN Gates Housing has obtained five court injunctions against tenants who have failed to allow access into their homes to carry out an Annual Gas Safety Check.
This action was taken after the tenants failed to reply to letters, cards, home visits and even putting a large 'banner' across the door of the properties, all of which highlighted the danger of not allowing access to carry out this important service.
Two out of the five tenants have since responded and allowed the essential check to be carried out. If the three remaining tenants do not respond they could face a custodial sentence or the loss of their home.
Angela Perry, Commercial Business Manager at Golden Gates Housing, said:-
"We have a legal obligation to carry out a gas safety check once a year. Taking this action shows that we will not compromise on the safety of our tenants and their homes and that we will take the necessary action to ensure the checks are carried out".
Marie Curie Centre Coffee Morning
THE Marie Curie Cancer Care is holding a Coffee Morning on Friday 28 January 2005, 11.30am to 1.30pm. The Coffee Morning will be held at the Marie Curie Centre, Speke Road, Woolton Village, Liverpool, L25.
At the Coffee Morning we have a Craft Stall, Bric-a-brac, Tombola, and a Raffle. So come and support your local Marie Curie Hospice by picking up a bargain!
There will be an entrance fee of £1.00 which includes your refreshments.
Marie Curie Cancer Care relies heavily on such fundraising to enable us to maintain our vital services to local people with cancer. It costs more than £3 million a year to run the Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool, with less than 50% coming from the NHS, the rest being dependent on fundraising. The hospice provides specialist medical and nursing care, with the expert help of multi-disciplined healthcare professionals, to over 5,800 local cancer patients each year. This care is provided through In-patient, Out-patient and Day Care services, and a more recently developed community outreach service, giving more people affected by cancer access to Marie Curie Services. We focus on providing the best possible quality of life for people with cancer and all services are provided free of charge to patients and their families.
Job
Advert:- Camp America's upcoming Summer Job Fair 2005
CAMP Directors are flying over from America specifically to recruit enthusiastic applicants from Manchester and the surrounding areas.
Jobs are aimed at anyone aged 18 or over by June 2005, with a love of children, travelling and the adventurous outdoors!
We would appreciate your help in 'spreading the word' and letting youngsters in your area know about the fabulous opportunity Camp America offers for work and travel in the United States, the experience of a lifetime!
Interested applicants should attend Manchester Town Hall (Albert Square), on Wednesday 9th February between 1pm and 5pm, with the necessary paperwork, to ensure they will walk away with a placement for summer camp work in the States!
We have hundreds of previous participants who would be happy to talk about their experiences with Camp America if you are interested in conducting a local interview, now or in the future. I have colour transparencies available to accompany the article if required.
Please feel free to contact me on 0207 581 7306 if you have any further questions or queries.
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Car Parking at Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals
Report issued by Matthew King, Southport
& Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust.
IN recognition of the difficulties in parking being experienced by patients and visitors at both Ormskirk and Southport Hospitals, staff are being encouraged to 'Go Green' and use alternative transport to get to work.
Steve Taylor, Director of Facilities said:- "Our priority with car parking has to be to our patients and visitors. The Trust has a Green Travel Plan that was agreed with the local authorities in 2003 in which we undertook to examine how our staff get to work, with the aim of reducing the number of vehicles that come on to the hospital sites. Unfortunately there are limited spaces on our sites and never enough for the demand. Patients should not have anxiety about parking, so this means us finding innovative means of reducing staff car parking. To that end, we are introducing changes that we hope will free up parking spaces for patients attending clinics and for visitors."
The Trust will introduce incentives for using alternative means of transport, such as cycles; an enhanced car-sharing scheme; and increased charges for the staff parking scheme. There will be no increase for patients or visitors; this will remain at £1.50. The car parks at both sites will also be reconfigured to ensure patients and visitor's car parks are located nearest to the hospital entrances.
Steve Taylor continued, "We are still in discussions with the local authorities about additional car parking spaces, but if successful this will probably only cope with the demand from the service changes being introduced on both sites. We hope our staff understand why we have had to introduce these changes. I would also ask that our patients and visitors consider whether there is an alternative way they too can come to our hospitals."
At Southport, the Trust is also in discussions with the local authority about the use of the proposed park and ride scheme on Foul Lane, Kew.
Longbarn Primary School to stay open
THE future of Warrignton's Longbarn Primary School, was secured this week and will stay open.
At a meeting of the Council's Executive Board on Monday night, it was agreed that Longbarn would not close and there would be a reduction of places, 105 each at Padgate CE Primary and Cinnamon Brow CE Primary.
The move comes as part of a major Warrington Local Education Authority (LEA) review of primary school provision, which included a series of consultations with schools and the wider community.
Cllr Maureen Banner, Executive Board Member for Education, Culture and Lifelong learning, said:- "The school received considerable support from the local community, their community spirit was exemplary and this has to be commended.
This also shows that as a local authority, we always welcome and encourage people to air their views on important issues like this and we are always ready to listen to what they have to say."
In addition, the number of 'first preferences' for children in reception classes at Longbarn Primary School has doubled since last year thanks to the support from the community.
Book sale bonanza
HUNGRY bookworms looking for a bargain are in for a treat next month.
Warrington Library and Museum is holding a book sale bonanza for the most ravenous of readers.
This will be the perfect opportunity for bookworms to get their hands on withdrawn library books at knockdown prices to tempt all appetites.
Prices will start from 10p and the sale will include hardbacks, paperbacks, textbooks, children's books, CDs and videos.
So don't miss out... Get down to Warrington Library and Museum from 9am to 4pm from Tuesday 15 Febuary to Thursday 17 February.
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