I guess the issue here is how you go about getting the things for your loved ones.

Lizzie lost her rag and chose to go to the Radio and TV.

When I was faced with a problem concerning my elderly parents some 8/9 years ago, I chose not to involve the papers/radio/TV. They were 85 and 86 at the time.

My parents had been married for 65 years. My father was unable to look after my mother anymore and unfortunately she had to go into a nursing home, which broke my father up very badly as you would imagine. Phone calls every night to me crying and very distraught. I was so concerned for his health and was deeply distressing for me as well.

The XXXXXXX City Council refused to find a Residential/Nursing home so that my father could be with her. They wouldn't even take any calls from me, begging them to be caring about my parents human rights.

So I went onto the internet to search for a human rights lawyer. Through that route, I found a highly recommended Human Rights lawyer in Birmingham who was considered to be the tops. As my parents didn't have sufficient funds to pay for her services, the lawyer took my dads case on for free.

One letter from this lawyer, had them phoning me up, to see what they could do to get my parents back together.

I found a nursing home up in Lincoln near me that was Residential/Nursing and had a double room they could have.

One phone call to the council was sufficient to have them moved up to Lincoln.

I did not rant and rave at the people who decide these matters or go to the press and it was all sorted within a month, although the move took a bit longer due to all the paperwork (its a wonder we have any trees left, with the amount of paperwork involved).

I could have had it splattered all over the press, but my concern was for my parents and I did not want to cause them any more stress than was necessary.