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• Support When (and Where) People Most Need It

  30-09-2018 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A unique offering is supporting easy accessorization to ‘future-proof’ intimate care.
  Closomat’s brand-leading Palma Vita is the only shower toilet on the market in the UK that offers a range of integrated support systems. The various options can all be added initially or retrospectively, to help ensure the user is safe and secure whilst using the WC, whether getting on, off or sitting on it, whatever their age or size.
  Choices include integrated fold-down support arms, close p
  
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• The Observer view on the Conservative party conference | Observer editorial

  30-09-2018 07:00
  This week’s gathering in Birmingham will be dominated by catastrophic infighting in a government that is failing the peopleGovernment exists to serve the people. But as Conservatives gather in Birmingham for their last party conference before Britain is due to leave the European Union, the relationship between our governing party and the country at large has never felt more inverted.The Observer is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, founded in 1791. It is published by Guardian News &
  
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• As well-off children are cosseted, we throw poorer kids to the wolves | Barbara Ellen

  30-09-2018 06:59
  Government cuts are a time bomb that can turn struggling youngsters into marginalised adultsWhen will Britain’s at-risk children finally be taken seriously – when they become big angry adults who can vote?The charity Action for Children analysed recent official spending figures, finding that council budgets for early help services (to prevent families reaching crisis point) have shrunk by £743m in five years, amounting to more than a quarter of lost funds. Sure Start children&r
  
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