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		<title>Food donations to RSPCA branch in Accrington help hungry pets</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2020 22:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[A Lancashire-based pet company has donated over 6,500 meals to Accrington-based animal charity, RSPCA Lancashire East. Animal charities like the RSPCA have been drastically impacted by the pandemic, partly due to factors such as the closure of charity shops, cancelling fundraising events and donors having less disposable income due to furloughs and job losses. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A visit to Vue could banish Blue Monday gloom</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[THE third Monday of January has been dubbed the most miserable day of the year – but Vue sites in Bolton, Cheshire Oaks, Manchester Printworks and Preston are making sure customers have no need to succumb to sadness. Vue is aiming to banish the Blue Monday gloom by providing a bit of extra happiness and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-op Sets Up Dementia Friendly Community in Levenshulme</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2019 14:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[A funeral home in Levenshulme is supporting its community by becoming Dementia Friends, in a bid to encourage others in the area to make a positive difference to people living with dementia. The initiative ran by the Alzheimer’s Society, starts with a one hour information session that prepares the new Dementia Friends to help them [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Stockport funeral home introduces Memory Boxes for those with dementia</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2019 15:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Co-op Funeralcare in Heaton Chapel has introduced a ‘Memory Box’ to the local community. Memory Boxes are a new initiative aimed to trigger long-term memory recognition for those living with dementia. The Memory Box, which will be taken to care homes and day centres in Stockport by Co-op colleagues, is filled with memorabilia. Items include [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Sale Co-op Colleagues Raise Funds for Six Charities</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Team members from Co-op Funeralcare and Food stores in Sale have raised funds for half a dozen charities at two local community events.  Co-op colleagues raised £187 for MacMillan, British Heart Foundation, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Alzheimer’s Society, Cancer Research UK and Stockdales at RHS Village in Bloom and the annual Picnic in the Park event.   Staff at Co-op’s RE Jones Funeralcare and Co-op food stores treated the local community to some [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Bolton funeral home gets town’s cars sparkling for charity</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Team members from Bolton Funeralcare rolled up their sleeves and donned sponges in a bid to raise funds for a local veteran’s charity at a community car wash.  Well acquainted to keeping their Hearses sparkling, colleagues at the funeral home raised an impressive £206 for Bolton Armed Forces Centre for Veterans at the four hour [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Liverpool funeral home commemorates Father’s Day</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Co-op’s Priory Lodge Funeralcare marked Father’s Day with a community event to help commemorate much-loved fathers, grandfathers and other special people who have passed away.  The Anfield branch of Co-op Funeralcare, located in Anfield Cemetery and Crematorium, was open to the public from 10am-1pm on Father’s Day (June 16).   Colleagues gave out handmade bookmarks featuring [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Greater Manchester opticians’ urge residents not to be caught out by the ‘silent thief of sight’</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[OVER 25,000 people living in Greater Manchester are at risk of having their vision stolen by a condition often dubbed as the ‘silent thief of sight’. Around 25,200 Greater Manchester residents are in danger of going blind from glaucoma – one of the largest causes of blindness in the world[1] – due to its gradual [&#8230;]]]></description>
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