A hard-hitting campaign to warn students of the dangers of meningitis will be grabbing their attention in union bars.
With thousands returning to university and college this month, Meningitis UK is giving out drinks coasters detailing how the infectious brain disease can kill in just four hours.
Teenagers and students are the second most at risk group, behind chi
ldren aged under five. Nine people are struck down with meningitis each day, and around 50 students will contract the disease each term – some will be left with lifelong disabilities or may die.
Students are urged to seek medical help as soon as they become concerned and not to dismiss the symptoms as a hangover. They should not wait for a rash to develop, as this is a sign of the more dangerous meningococcal septicaemia.
Fashion fights breast cancerBreast cancer and celebration may seem like polar opposites, but for Christine Gee, 55, from Anlaby, celebration will be the order of the day when she takes to the catwalk at this year's Breast Cancer Care Fashion Show.
Christine and 23 other men and women who have all been diagnosed with breast cancer, plans to show her stylish side when she graces the catwalk at the annual fashion event.
Part-time lecturer Christine, decided to take part in the Breast Cancer Care Fashion Show to send a positive message to women who live with breast cancer that they can still look and feel good. The fashion event, now in its 12th year, takes place tonight at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane in London.
Visit www.breastcancercare.org.uk/theshowCharity concert beside the seaThe Friends of Eckersley House are holding a charity concert to raise money for the home-from-home that helps the families of sick children at St James' Hospital, Leeds.
The event is at Haven Golden Sands at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, starting on Halloween, Friday, October 31, with a prize bingo. The main concert is on Saturday, November 1, where a host of acts will perform, including Arron Burdon, Dean Barton, Clayton Brooks and the funk bank Dirty Fakirs. Simon Widdop, father of Leigh-Anne Widdop, who was treated for leukaemia last year, says: "We would welcome any celebrity who would like to help us in exchange for free accommodation on site."
The ticket price is £5 with discounted accommodation throughwww.BookOurEvent.co.uk or 01422 893345.The full article contains 418 words and appears in n/a newspaper.
