The Guardian

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Resort town struggles with squalid housing, poor nutrition for children and now, statistics show, earlier deaths It is a league table that no one wants to top. For the first time in 20 years, Blackpool, a once-glamorous seaside resort, this week overtook Glasgow to have the lowest average male life expectancy in the UK. Men born in Blackpool will now live until just after their 73rd birthday on average, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) study , six years less than the average

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 8, 2024

My wife, Teresa Collingwood Smith, has died after a short illness, aged 82. Like her father, RG Collingwood, a philosopher and archaeologist, and her grandfather, WG Collingwood, an artist, writer and secretary to John Ruskin, Teresa is hard to pigeonhole. She was a successful Oxford academic, and also an experienced community organiser and activist with the ability to act as a catalyst for others.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 8, 2024

A free adult social care system modelled on one already in operation in a London borough is achievable, according to Sally Powell and Stephen Burke. Plus a letter from John Ransford A royal commission on the future of social care ( Editorial, 3 December ) would be yet another example of how successive governments have kicked the care can further down the road.

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