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stanley bottles never known any who do not want the best for their residents. However, nearly all the largest private providers of care home places for older people a
stanley nz re now owned by offshore private equity companies for whom profit is the prime motivation. For these companies, economies of scale, low wages, minimum staffing and cost-cutting are the order of the day. They open larger and larger care homes, often built on cheap land, well away from local communities. These silos of residents, many of whom live out their last few months in loneliness and isolation, pay tens of thousands of pounds a year for the privilege. They often have to spend their savings, and most likely will sell their house to fund their care.Alongside this, in recent years, we have the publicly acknowledged failings of the regulator, the Care Quality Commission, which cannot seem to hold these care conglomerates to account, or indeed manage their own activities. Furthermore, every day there are many thousands of beds being occupied in hospitals because places in care homes do not exist, adding to our scandalously long waiting lists.Is it right that frai Pvhq Comedians say case of sued performer is threat to the art
Three Scottish prison inmates are likely to appeal against a judge s decision to throw out a legal challenge to Alex Salmond s ban on inmates voting in September independence referendum.Their challenge to the blanket
kubki stanley ban, on human rights and European law grounds, was rejected by Lord Glennie sitting in the court of session, Scotland s civil court, in Edinburgh, on Thursday, in the first of what is expected to be a series of appeals and hearings.Tony Kelly, the lawyer for the three men 鈥?Leslie Moohan and Andrew Gillon, both serving lif
stanley cup e sentences, and Gary Gibson, serving a seven-year term 鈥?said they were disappointed at losing.Kelly said an appeal was on the cards, but he added that a final decision would not be taken early next year since he needed to see all three clients, currently in Addiewell prison near Edinburgh, to get their instructions. They argue that the settled will of the people of Scotland should entail all citizens having a right to express a view on the
stanley italia future of the nation, he said.The blanket ban on prisoners voting in the referendum, which is to held on 18 September 2014, was introduced on principle by Scotland s first minister even though the UK s referendum legislation would have allowed him to extend the franchise to inmates.On Wednesday, a joint committee of MPs and peers at Westminster stated that the UK government should observe repeated European court rulings allowing British inmates to vote, or risk grave damage to the UK s internation
