TERMINAL illness is not about to put off proud parents Leesa and Allan Lynch from doing the best for their two-year-old-son who has been struck down with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).
THERE is no stopping Corringham's Queen of Can-Do! Lucy Chipperfield has just spent three days cycling from London to Paris raising over £,2,000 for Little Havens Hospice.
WHAT must it be like, after suffering from a stroke, to get the opportunity to play your beloved sport once more? Thurrock Stroke Awareness have enabled survivors to be thrivers by faciltiating use of the Kinesis Suite at Blackshots Leisure Centre.
IN JULY, the Society for All Artist’s (the SAA) held its exhibition, “It’s all about Art”, at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London. At a prize giving ceremony held on 24th July Peggy Randall, the chairman/founder of the Thurrock Society for Artists with Disabilities, was awarded the ‘SAA 2010 Painting Bursary’ by the chairman of the SAA, John Hope-Hawkins.
It was only a few months ago that Spinmeister Alastair Campbell presented an audience with and spoke candidly about the battle with depression and the challenge of confronting it in the media.
THE DEDICATION of the staff at Leatherland Lodge in South Ockendon has been well documented. Residents and families often refer to the "caring family atmosphere at the care home.
Please call 0844 686 5047 to register your vote or vote online at the National Lottery Good Causes website www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards and watch their video.
Therapy For You has been named as best in region in terms of coverage, completed treatments and movement to recovery for clients within the East of England. Therapy For You offers a range of therapies including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and counselling.
As a result of the changes, the secretary of state believes that the NHS will be streamlined with fewer layers of bureaucracy. Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts will be phased out. Management costs will be reduced so that as much resource as possible supports frontline services.
The course is open to people with long term conditions, such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, arthritis, back pain, cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis.
As part of my training for this challenge I joined 6,499 other cycling enthusiasts for the London Bikeathon 2010 in aid of Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research. However, rather than opting for the 13 mile bikeathon as I did last year; I accepted the 52 mile cycle challenge around the great city of London . And what a super duper challenge it was!
Michelle said: "We lost my mum in february. She said that she didn't mind the chemo, it was the people looking at her with her head shaved so i said that if it was good enough for her, it was good enough for me."
