She said she believed he was trying to find out about her life and children.
outside the council's headquarters following the public meeting, with the plans out for consultation until December.staff at the Harborne Day Centre on West Boulevard knew "all the service users inside out."
“My brother has been going there for 43 years, you think you can just pick him up and move him to another day centre?”Robert, who requires 24-hour care, had an infection as a child that had left him completely paralysed on one side.“Robert has to have everything done for him, all his friends are there,” Ms Cross explained, adding she didn't have any carers.
“All I have is Harborne Day Centre, it’s our lifeline," she said.In February, the council agreed to save £1.95m for 2024-25 and £3.35m in 2025-26 against the nine day centres in the city.
The move follows the local authority's consultation on the future of the council-run centres and an independent review which was approved in April 2023.
, 53, who has epilepsy and water on the brain.It defines properties as being "at risk" when the yearly chance of flooding is greater than one-in-1,000.
Currently, the EA says that 4.6 million homes and businesses are at risk of surface flooding, with London the most affected region.This is a 43% rise on its previous estimate, but this is almost entirely due to improved datasets and computer modelling techniques, rather than a real-world increase in flood risk.
However, the EA says that climate change could raise the number of properties at risk of surface flooding to around 6.1 million by the middle of the century.It is well-documented that a