Thank you so much for sharing this India! I really appreciate it - it's such a difficult issue, and I'm worried reforms are going to miss the mark. I know how challenging it has been for us, and we're one of the lucky ones because we've ended up with the EHCP outcome we needed!

Ah fantastic, thanks India - I'm glad someone looked in more detail than I managed to do writing the newsletter last night!

I often come back to something Sir John Burn, then of Newcastle Hospitals said: he was running a National Illness Service in the NE, w/ great capability, but tough situations.

I mean, man, if we get even one of those, it'll be a good day.

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Including this important health warning on national coverage of the issues...

It speaks volumes about the diversity of human experience that a journey across the Tees flyover inspired both this song and the opening shot of Blade Runner.

Tell me if you see any Catholics in funny hats with suspicious looking books of matches

Might see you down the front later for one of the weirder British traditions!

"Regards, Samuel"

I was going to say "no, surely it never works", then I noticed you've been doing graded from the casual 'Pan' to the more formal 'Panagiotis' and the pain and the hurt is just leaping out of the email and I think you should go back saying actually you do want some more customers.

"Too bad you want to be a loser, Sam, I'll be working with the winners...no, you don't know them, they go to another school"