The lccal paper has just left, after ringing up to ask if they could follow up on the story. They're after Torbay Care Trust for many things, and find the same as the BBC, a wall of silence hidden behind...'We're following Government Guidelines'..

At the moment, they're trying to close down a Respite Care centre in Torquay, the John Parkes centre, where severely disabled children are taken care of for a while to give their parents a break.

Torbay Care Trust says it costs too much to run and the children can be just as well cared for by 'trained families' in their own homes..

Age Concern will fit things for free. The elderly though, have to buy them.

This isn't just about Vi, jeddy, it's about all the other Vi's and Vic's out there who have no one to fight for them, whilst they struggle to get by on a meagre pension, often with no family or friends around them to help out.

It never used to be this way, and THAT is the danger here, that so many people have become so compliant to 'The New Criteria' without even bothering to ask what cutbacks those at the top are making...

Yes, we are in a recession, but the cutbacks start at the TOP, with those who sit in plush offices, driving plush cars, often company ones, who have large homes and large bank balances...It should NOT start with the people at the bottom, let alone when some of those people are 95 years old. As I said, Vi is lucky, she's looked after well and has others to fight for her, many don't have that at all, and this is about THEM.

The more you make a population feel that 'this should be bought by you, and that should be bought by you'...and the more the population gives in to that, BELIEVES it, then the more you are staring a private medical world in the face...

I am NOT knocking ANY National Health Carers here, the medical side, that is, but I sure am knocking the managerial side who make these decisions and then stay locked away from the very people who are affected by their decisions, whilst continuing to live their comfortable lives.