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Cambrian News
02-07-2025
- Health
- Cambrian News
Rob James column: How UK's new laws mark a 'liberal shift'
In the same way, an Anglican bishop has helpfully pointed out, the Assisted dying Bill "does not prevent terminally ill people who perceive themselves to be a burden to their families and friends from choosing 'assisted dying', and that we could become 'a society where the state fully funds a service for terminally ill people to end their own lives but shockingly only funds around one third of palliative care. 'Let's hope and pray then, that the Senedd will continue to reject it.
Daily Mirror
16-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mirror
'I'd give anything for one more day with him - I can't support assisted dying'
As the Assisted dying Bill returns to Commons, The Mirror's Fran Bowden shares just how tough providing end of life care really is, and why she can't support the law change Stepping through the door on December 17, 2017, Norman and I knew he was coming home to die. Nearly 96, it had taken a year and many visits to A&E for his advanced heart failure to be diagnosed. It seemed to me that over-stretched NHS staff were simply too busy to get to the bottom of elderly patients' problems. Still, this was no time for recriminations. And Norman was lucky. He had me and his devoted adult children to fight for him. My job now was to make every single moment Norman and I shared as good as it possibly could be. Ours was an extraordinary romance. We'd fallen in love at first sight when we got talking, after his dog ate my sandwich on our local common - despite him being 79 to my 36. If you'd met him, you'd understand. Age didn't matter. He was simply amazing and I loved him very deeply - everybody did. His last year was one of the most precious of my entire life. It was an incredible privilege to be the person he chose to rely on. Together with his family, some wonderful carers, friends, the local hospice - and not forgetting my pet house rabbits who brought us both great joy - we shared a lot of laughter as well as tears. Every moment counted. But getting everything Norman needed for a dignified death was a monumental battle and, at times, it nearly broke me. I fought it willingly because he was the love of my life. And that is exactly why I can't support assisted dying. I know how tough providing end of life care really is. And the fear that people who are lonely, unsupported or feel they have become a burden could be coerced into letting go keeps nagging at me. Of course, I empathise with people experiencing extreme suffering, who feel they have a right to choose when to die. But Norman would have given anything for one more day of life - as would I to have spent a moment longer with him. In my darkest hours since losing him, I recall how often he told me: 'I love living.' I can just see him saying it and it spurs me on. Norman Greville Pelluet was six weeks off 97 when he died peacefully on December 27, 2018, holding my hand and surrounded by his children, after just one day in the hospice. The staff there were simply incredible. They made Norman comfortable, relieved his pain and gave us all a safe and private space to say goodbye. Norman and I spent 17-and-a-half wonderful years together. He taught me the true value of love and life.
Glasgow Times
30-04-2025
- Glasgow Times
Cambuslang waste carrier fined £1k for falsifying authorisation
Calum Morton, from Cambuslang, was served with the Fixed Monetary Penalty (FMP) by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) after the regulator found they had falsely claimed to be a registered waste carrier and provided false information about a waste deposit. In May 2023, South Lanarkshire Council provided SEPA with a waste transfer notice identifying Morton as a registered waste carrier and detailing the collection and transport of waste from The Tudor Inn, Cambuslang, to the NWH Group waste management facility in Glasgow. READ NEXT: Police called to 2am Glasgow city centre sex attack and robbery Witness statements collected from the council and NWH Group certified that Morton had not deposited nor paid for the deposit of waste at the location, while checks of SEPA's own records indicated that he was not registered as a waste carrier on the date stated on the waste transfer notice. Under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, it is an offence for any person to make a statement which he knows to be false or misleading with respect to licences and an FMP was deemed appropriate enforcement action in this case. SEPA is now reminding waste carriers of the "serious consequences" for forging records. READ NEXT: Assisted dying Bill needs 'further consideration' before becoming law, MSPs told George Hope, unit manager of SEPA's Enforcement Support Team, said: "Providing false information on any waste licence is unacceptable and often done to avoid the charges for taking wastes to permitted waste sites for recovery or disposal. "Regulating the movement of waste is essential to ensure that it is taken to an appropriate disposal or treatment site and to prevent waste crime. "Waste transfer notes are vital to tracking who has handled waste at every stage of the journey and how it has ultimately been disposed of, which is why they must be filled in accurately. "This penalty should be a reminder to any business or individual working in the waste management industry that it is your responsibility to ensure you are compliant with your duty of care. "That includes ensuring your staff understand what is required when completing required documentation." Waste transfer notices ensure there is a clear audit trail from when waste is produced until disposal, providing an accurate record that allows regulators to track waste movements and check it has been handled legally. The notice should provide essential information on the type and quantity of waste, where it came from and where it will be disposed of or treated. Any on who produces, keeps or manages controlled waste or has control of it as a broker or dealer, or carriers must complete accurate waste transfer notes and make them available on request.
