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03.03.2022 - 22:13 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A 91-year-old pensioner is having to struggle up three flights of stairs to his flat everyday as a housing trust won’t give him the empty one on the ground floor of his block.
John Curtis has lived in Milton Close in Stretford for upwards of two decades but has become less mobile in recent years. He said he can’t understand why Trafford Housing Trust, who manage the building, won’t allow him to move in downstairs.
John’s son used to live with him in his current two-bedroom apartment, but he has been on his own since his son moved out.
The Trust explained that since he now lives alone, Mr Curtis isn’t eligible for the empty two-bedroom flat that currently sits empty on the ground floor.
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The trust have instead offered him a one bedroom bungalow around six miles away. But John and his friends are concerned he’d be completely isolated there.
John said: “There are 28 steps for me to climb, I’m not very mobile. I can just about manage if I haven’t got anything in my hands, but if I’m carrying shopping or anything, I need to shout my neighbours to help. My neighbours look after me.
“They offered me this bungalow out at the end of a country lane somewhere, it’s a burglar’s paradise. I said I’m not moving there, not a chance. I need to be near my neighbours. It’s better for me to stay here where I have people helping me, near my friends.
“My argument is they’ve still got an empty one if I move to the one downstairs, but they refused to do that. As long as I’m in the building, that’s good enough for me, I can’t see the point.”
John believes he might be the longest standing tenant of the block, having been there for over two decades. He
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Greta Van Fleet have postponed a series of upcoming US shows after guitarist Jake Kiszka was hospitalised with pneumonia.The Michigan rockers are currently on tour in the States behind 2021 album ‘The Battle at Garden’s Gate’, kicking off the ‘Dreams In Gold’ tour on March 10 in Michigan.Earlier this week, the band postponed gigs in Flint and Ypsilanti on March 16 and 17 respectively, revealing that brothers Josh and Jake Kiszka woke up unwell.The band have now confirmed in a follow-up post that Jake had been hospitalised with pneumonia, meaning tonight’s (March 19) show in Huntington, West Virginia is also postponed.They wrote on Instagram: “While Josh has mostly recovered, Jake’s diagnosis is more complex. What started as a small cough on Tuesday rapidly progressed overnight requiring his admission to the hospital yesterday.
Greta Van Fleet began the North American leg of their 2022 ‘Dreams In Gold’ tour in Michigan this week – check out the full setlist and watch fan-shot footage below.For the first of five dates in their home state, the band took to the stage at the Wings Event Center in Kalamazoo on Thursday night (March 10) to deliver a 14-track headline performance (via Setlist.FM).The group kicked off with ‘Heat Above’, the opening track from their second album ‘The Battle at Garden’s Gate’. They also offered up live airings of the 2021 record’s cuts ‘Caravel’, ‘The Weight of Dreams’, ‘Built By Nations’, ‘Age Of Machine’ and more.Elsewhere, Greta Van Fleet dusted off ‘Watching Over’, ‘When The Curtain Falls’ and ‘Age Of Man’ from their 2018 debut, ‘Anthem Of The Peaceful Army’, as well as the following cuts from 2017’s ‘From The Fires’ double EP: ‘Safari Song’, ‘Black Smoke Rising’ and ‘Highway Tune’.You can see a selection of videos from the concert below.Greta Van Fleet played:‘Heat Above’‘Safari Song’‘Black Smoke Rising’‘Caravel’‘Age Of Machine’‘Light My Love’‘Trip The Light Fantastic’‘The Weight Of Dreams’‘Watching Over’‘Built By Nations’‘When The Curtain Falls’Encore:‘Age Of Man’‘Highway Tune’‘My Way, Soon’ Greta Van Fleet are due to resume their tour in Grand Rapids, Michigan this evening (March 12) before visiting Saginaw (13), Flint (16) and Ypsilanti (17).
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