Daily News Roundup – 18 August 2014

Categories: In The Media.

Building hospice is vital for families like three-year-old Jackson’s

Maidenhead Advertiser

A family from Hurley are backing the campaign to build Berkshire’s first hospice for children to support their three-year-old boy.

Couple’s wedding blessed in hospice helping daughter

Oxford Mail

Newlyweds Louise Duman and Richard Dicks celebrated their nuptuals with a blessing at an Helen House Hospice.

‘Makeover’ for Sue Ryder hospice reception

Henley Standard

Visitors and staff at the Sue Ryder hospice in Nettlebed now have a more welcoming reception hall following a makeover.

Comedienne Debra Stephenson on her new role as patron of two charities

Bournemouth Daily Echo

Actress, impressionist and comedienne Debra Stephenson is patron at Julia’s House children’s hospice and Lewis-Manning Hospice.

The new death etiquette: short, shared, shallow

The Independent – comment

Outpourings of ‘grief’ on Twitter are easy to mock, but maybe they’re better than saying nothing at all.

Death us do part: how the prospect of dying is fuelling silver splitter divorces

The Telegraph

Divorce lawyers say they have seen a growing number of splits involving couples unable to agree about plans for their own death.

New child funeral charity appeals to nurses for help

Nursing Times (registration needed)

A new charity that helps grieving parents with the cost of a funeral for their baby or child is appealing to nursing staff to help it identify potential beneficiaries.

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