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17 December 2020 • 6:00am
Join us for a heart-warming, virtual Christmas Carol Service, filmed at the magnificent St Bride’s church.
This year’s service features Christmas carols sung by the famous St Bride’s Choir and include special readings from
You can find the full order of service here.
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‘Alzheimer’s makes caring for a loved one so much harder’
Following Dame Barbara Windsor’s death from the disease, Steve Acklam talks about looking after a beloved wife who is slipping away
Steve Acklam at his home near Cambridge
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When Steve Acklam first met his wife, Veronica, it was the late Sixties, and she was a brilliant PE teacher at a leading Cambridge secondary school. “She was very physically active, alert, highly intelligent,” he says.
Today, however, at 74, she is a shadow of her former self. “She’s had a variety of challenging illnesses,” says Steve, a retired charity sector worker, also 74. “She’s had brain surgery, she’s registered disabled because of a problem with her feet. But then six or seven years ago, suddenly she started to ask repeatedly ‘What time is it?’, or saying ‘I’ve forgotten how to count…’, both of which I now know can be early signs of Alzheimer’s.”
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For more than a century,
The Telegraph has run charity appeals at Christmas, inviting readers to get into the festive spirit by helping those in need. One of the first such fundraising campaigns, during the First World War, helped supply troops with Christmas puddings.
Last year, readers dug deep to support three worthy causes that help vulnerable children, lonely older people and sufferers of leukaemia, raising just under £600,000, with an astonishing £101,000 donated on our annual phone-in day, when readers were able to call in to speak to Telegraph writers and editors and donate to our charities.