The longest serving worker along Goodwood Parade shops on Courtlands Drive in Watford is about to hang up her hairdressing scissors after sixty one years on the parade, that's sure alot of haircuts, so I caught up with Naomi Coyle to find out how it all started : "When I was thirteen, I used to work Fridays and Saturdays at the Hairdressers , it was called "Malcoms" back then. When I left school at around thirteen/fourteen I did my apprenticeship there before leaving for a short while, but then I came back and the shop had a new owner and name "Richards" and I must've worked there for a good forty years. When Richard retired and the shop closed I moved over to the other side of the Parade where owner Julie Allery had the Hair Tech salon and I've been here ever since" There has been alot of filming on the Parade over the years and some of you might remember the Confused.co...
Tha problem with M.E apart from having to cope with enough symptoms to fill an encyclopaedia with is it means you have no life, so if you have no life other than M.E what are you expected to talk about? When I’m not recovering from major surgery I do have a little bit of a life that I’ve carved out for myself but that’s taken a long time and takes discipline and determination to carry out because it doesn’t stop my day being consumed by M.E. and everyone copes differently. For those of you that don’t have M.E let me explain, imagine a time when you’ve had raging toothache, you know tha kind, where it feels like your whole heads pulsating and throbbing with pain? now imagine painkillers don’t work, theres nuthin tha dentist can do so you’re just gonna have to get on with it, live like that everyday probably for tha rest of your life……..now throw flu and a hangover into tha mix and everyone expects you to carry on as normal?…I’m just giv...
It may seem madness that as we start 2025 the DWP have already announced some of its plans to ramp up its intimidation and fear mongering of disabled claimants and this is going to include using social media. They've stated they aim on hiring teams of people to search social media for claimants and look for posts so that they can build a case against them. We're not talking organised criminals fleecing the system of hundreds of thousands here although that's what they are leading the public to believe with one breath, but in another they state they will be looking at peoples posts to see if they're doing something they've perhaps said they cant do on a claim form, or any activity that could show they aren't as ill/disabled as they have stated. Now there's a huge problem with this...... Firstly as we all know, people can create false lives for different reasons, photos can be photo shopped, someone bed-bound that never leaves their room can create...