A service helping pensioners and people with disabilities in Powys is set to receive a major overhaul thanks to a £500,000 cash boost, say officials. Powys Community Equipment Service supplies items such as hoists to bedridden people, and helps them continue to live in their own homes.
A woman who fought for better disabled access at her local railway station has ended up stuck in the new lift.
The Liberal Democrats today released figures showing that the Winter Fuel Allowance now only covers 36% of the average winter fuel bill, compared with almost two thirds in 2003.
The government is to examine whether reforms are needed to the system of funding long-term care of elderly and disabled people in England. Proposals for a Green Paper to look at the issue were contained in the Comprehensive Spending Review.
The government is to spend millions more on "talking treatments" for depression and anxiety in England.
US scientists have repaired the nerve damage caused by multiple sclerosis in lab experiments on mice.
