So here we are with another week underway!! Some of you will have been amazed to see a large orange thing in the sky last week! Known as the "sun" it might reappear this week!! My garden could certainly do with a little warmth. As always I hope these stories are of interest and contact me if you have any comments. Personal care bill receives damaging setback Peers have delivered a damaging blow to government plans to introduce free personal care at home for disabled and older people with the highest needs. An amendment added to the personal care at home bill during its report stage in the Lords means implementation would be delayed until after April 2011, rather than the planned date of 1 October 2010. The disabled peers Baroness Wilkins, Baroness Masham, Lord [Colin] Low and Baroness [Jane] Campbell all backed the amendment, which received support from all parties and was easily passed. Three other successful amendments – including one to force an independent review of the c...