Food Glorious Food
FELBRIGG HALL
Friday 24 July, 10.30am - 1.30pm
Children's Baking Day
Join one of our catering team for a morning's baking. Make your own cakes and biscuits and
while they are baking, enjoy a short quiz and a drink. Then take home what you've made!
£7.50 per child, 1 accompanying adult free. Booking essential on 01263 838237.
Please sign our Petition
You probably already know about Nurse Margaret Haywood, whistleblowing nurse struck off
the Nursing register for secretly filming apalling treatment of elderly patients in a NHS
hospital, for BBC Panorama.
42000+ people have now signed an online petition from the Royal College of Nursing
calling for her re-instatement. It has been a catalyst for an outpouring of anger about
poor treatment of the elderly that is all too common in the NHS.
The many comments on the petition from patients and their families confirm this, and
the frustration of staff who fear victimisation if they speak out about unnacceptable
standards of care.
I hope you will add your voices by signing the petition, and alert others. The human
rights of (we) the older people in this country are too often ignored, yet the
overwhelming support for the petition indicates a strength of feeling and anger that is
out there.
We need a vociferous campaign about the injustices and mistreatment that Margaret
Haywoods case has exposed both before and after the next general election.
Please encourage more people to sign the RCN petition, and bring this to the attention of
your MP.
Even a junior health minister said the decision to strike off Nurse Haywood was wrong.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/support-for-whistleblowing-nurse/signatures.html
Petition set up by Royal College of Nursing for profession and members of public.
Ms Irene Abrams
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 North Walsham Citizens Advice Bureau
is open from 10am-3pm on Mon, Tues & Thurs for drop in and advice line on 01692
402570. We also have appointments only sessions on Monday evenings 5.30-7.30 and Sat
morning 9.30-11.30 at the Bureau. If you would like to see an adviser, at one
of our outreach locations, (Aldborough, Bacton, Buxton, Cromer, Horstead, Hoveton,
Mundesley, Sheringham & Stalham). this can be arranged on our appointment line on
01692 405847.
Dear Editor
I have long been in favour of a supermarket in Sheringham as I truly believe that one
is desperately needed and have backed past Tesco applications. I am not specifically in
favour of Tesco per se, it was just that theirs was the only option on the table. With
this in mind I went to the Sheringham Eco-Store Exhibition with a completely open mind.
The exhibition itself was well presented and information on the boards clear and concise,
however, it also appeared to contradict itself in many ways.
Their brochure states that it "Complements rather than competes with town centre
shops", yet the following page states that the "Greenhouse Café would welcome
shoppers, users of Splash, allotment holders and 'visitors'."
How will a café complement and not compete with the vast array of eateries currently
in the town? Visitors eating at the proposed Eco-store, would not be in the Town Centre
and very unlikely to go there.
"In the right position to keep traffic flowing smoothly" and ".... Will
keep our traffic away from the town centre." Traffic taken away from the town centre
invariably means that less footfall will be there, which in itself will effect the local
shops. The location on the Weybourne Road would not reduce the volume of traffic from that
predicted by Tesco, arguably, the majority of it would just be for a further distance
along an even more unsuitable stretch of road. Crossing that road from the Holt Road
junction would become a nightmare.
On discussion with one of the representatives there, I pointed out that locally sourced
products could be bought in most major supermarket chains. Free delivery, parking and
transport by electric buses would all cost money, which would have to be reflected in the
price of the goods on offer. The Food Academy and allotments are a wonderful idea, but
would only benefit a few of the local people.
After very careful consideration, I personally believe that this store would be of
detriment to the town. It is too far out and on the wrong side, people shopping there
would be unlikely to use the existing town centre, which would cause shops to close, it is
unlikely to increase the number of people shopping in the town centre.
Despite saying that it complements rather than competes, it will in fact be in direct
competition with the existing greengrocers, butchers and bakers as would Tesco, but unlike
the Tesco proposal, it will also be in competition with the cafes and restaurants that are
here.
Melanie Clarke |
