BBC Radio 4 broadcaster becomes patron for Cumbrian charity
Caz Graham, The new patron of Carer Support South Lakes
A BBC Radio 4 broadcaster who was touched by the impact caring has had on her friends has become a patron for a charity that supports them.
Carlisle-born Caz Graham says she’s excited and honoured at being announced as the first-ever patron of the charity Carer Support South Lakes, which supports hundreds of unpaid carers each year.
Caz says she began to fully understand the vital role the charity plays after seeing close friends become carers for their loved ones.
“Nobody knows when it is going to happen, and nobody really understands it until it touches you or your close friends,” she said.
Foot-and-mouth is still casting its shadow two decades later
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TWENTY years ago tomorrow marks the first case recorded of a disease that triggered an animal health and economic crisis which devastated agriculture and just about shut down tourism. The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease led to more than six million animals being slaughtered across the country, and tourism businesses losing millions of pounds. Northumberland was one of the worst-affected area of the country, with 5,753 cattle, 38,448 sheep and 714 pigs having to be killed. The pyres were everywhere: mounds of animals aflame in the countryside, the images burning across our news bulletins and front pages. Across the county, farms were fighting to beat back a virus that was swallowing up their livestock.