"Catastrophic" cuts to social care have left hundreds of thousands of vulnerable elderly people without support, a leading charity revealed yesterday.
Age UK said a massive £1.2 billion drop in direct social care funding since 2010 has prompted 87 per cent of local councils in England to deny service unless the need is considered "substantial" or "critical."
Many older people already struggling with everyday tasks have been left without any support.
We need a massive change in direction to renew a crumbling health service — that’s why Plaid Cymru has an ambitious plan to recentre primary care by recruiting 500 additional GPs and opening six new elective care hubs across Wales, writes MABON AP GWYNFOR
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT



