I am writing the following blog in a very careful manner. I just want to relay the facts and the injustice, as I see it, being served to me by the Adult Social Care department at Wrexham County Borough Council (WCBC). In 2022, I expressed an interest in taking a short break to Florida. This […]
This time of year is always exciting as we are on the precipice of a fresh new year bursting with new opportunities to rectify the wrongs of the previous 12 months. It is always important to use the no man’s land that exists between Xmas and New Year to plan ahead while the majority of
Over the coming weeks, I will be adding a match programme for each of the games that I have focused on in Dirty Old Town. This is the programme from the League Two match against Cheltenham Town at the Racecourse on 10/09/05. Wrexham won the game 2-0. Wrexham had to postpone the previous match against
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Over the coming weeks, I will be adding a match programme for each of the games that I have focused on in Dirty Old Town. This is the programme from the Nationwide League Division Two match against Macclesfield Town at the Racecourse on 05-09-98 . The game ended 2-1 to Wrexham. After the embarrassment of
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As part of my role as Scottish correspondent for Groundtastic magazine I wrote a number of club articles dedicated to a particular stadium. I hugely enjoyed visiting new towns and cities to unearth some architectural gems of the football world. As a roving reporter I visited Caledonian Stadium, Firs Park, Victoria Park, Borough Briggs, and completed
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Unbelievably, I am writing an update for the #SaveWILG campaign – something that I have been working on since November 2016. After highlighting the campaign on national television, newspapers, radio and across social media, I was delighted when the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services visited my comrades and I back in February 2019,
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I watch a lot of YouTube videos in bed at night in an attempt to lull myself to sleep. I have mixed results with this tactic. It sometimes works if I am in the mood to listen to some soft rock, but most of the time I opt for punk rock bands of the 70’s
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The following article was taken from the Luke Clements site and was written by Ann James. *** February 18, 2020 The Deputy Minister’s update statement on the Welsh Independent Living Grant[1] (WILG) is particularly welcome because it acknowledges the risk to the independence, choice and control of disabled people in Wales unless the Welsh Government enables
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The following is an article written by John Pring on his excellent Disability News Service website. This can be accessed by clicking here. I have been put in a difficult position following the publication of the Welsh Government’s new framework on independent living – Action On Disability – The Right to Independent Living. I have
I am up to my neck in negotiations with my local authority over emergency payments for my depleted Direct Payments account. It has taken a beating over the past six months, as I have been using it to fund the 24/7 support that I so desperately need. I had saved quite a sum to be
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