Care home’s new ‘time warp’ room improves life for Alzheimer’s patients
A care home has dramatically improved the life of its Alzheimer’s patients – by creating a 1950s ‘time warp’ room which reminds them of happier times. The ‘Reminiscence Room’ features classic Bakelite furniture, a gramophone, wireless and a typewriter. Carers say the sitting room helps to calm patients by transporting them back to ‘the good…
The oldest gays in the village: Couple celebrate 50th anniversary
Proud Paul Pollard and boyfriend Ted Spring have celebrated their 50th anniversary together – and Britain’s longest gay relationship. Dedicated Paul, 72, met Ted, 73, in a club half a century ago and the devoted couple say it was ”love at first sight”. Paul was a 22-year-old chef at the time and Ted was then…
Property tycoon to sell off £2m empire – aged 96
A widow is to sell off her £2million property portfolio – at the age of 96. Landlady Ella Lamplough spent half a century building up her collection of 17 properties throughout Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds. The portfolio ranges from town houses to commercial sites and country cottages, All the properties will be auctioned at the…
Oldest fisherman celebrates 70 years at sea despite not eating fish and not being able to swim
The oldest fishermen in the country celebrated 70 years of netting seafood despite never tasting his catch – because he doesn’t eat FISH. Bill Hocking began fishing in May 1940 as 11-year-old boy and is still hauling lobster and crabs 70 years later. He starts work at 5am every morning and works seven days a…
Care home worker on trial for ‘humiliating’ abuse of elderly patient
A care home worker humiliated a wheelchair-bound dementia patient by exposing herself and squishing her breasts into the elderly woman’s face – to ‘show off’, a court heard. June Davies, 49, allegedly exposed her naked stomach to Iris Cameron, 93, and ”wobbled” it before she pressed her exposed breasts into her face saying ”have some…
