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Visitors are once again welcome to the Tie A Yellow Ribbon event at Forest Holme Hospice in Poole A LOCAL hospice has confirmed that an annual commemorative event will return thanks to the easing of lockdown restrictions. Forest Holme Hospice in Poole will host a scaled-down version of their Tie A Yellow Ribbon event on Thursday, August 5, between 11am and 4pm. Tie a Yellow Ribbon is a special event that usually takes place each year at Forest Holme, during Hospice Awareness Month in June. Due to the pandemic, the charity instead organised a yellow-ribbon inspired Arts Trail around Poole featuring work submitted by supporters. ....
ARTIST Stuart Semple has donated a painting to Forest Holme Hospice s new arts trail, which is on display in Poole town centre throughout July. Bournemouth-based Stuart painted an interpretation of a yellow ribbon inscribed with lyrics from Coldplay’s hit single ‘Yellow’, which has been installed in one of the main windows near the entrance to Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts. His artwork will later be auctioned off to help raise money for the hospice charity. The concept of the art trail was to ask Forest Holme supporters to create yellow ribbon inspired works of art as an alternative the hospice’s usual Tie A Yellow Ribbon event, which could not take place this year due to government Covid-19 guidelines. ....
A carer who used a dying man s bank card to fund more than 100 transactions on a lavish £17,000 shopping spree has been jailed for 14 months. Lynn Hopkin, 54, stole thousands of pounds from Robin Clark to fund family holidays to Disneyland Paris, online shopping and even a new hoover to remember him by . Hopkin met terminally-ill Mr Clark when he was admitted to Forest Holme hospice and over the course of a month she made more than 100 fraudulent transactions. She continued right up until a week after his death and managed to empty every last penny from her victim s bank account. Judge Robert Pawson called it a systematic and wicked crime against a vulnerable, dying patient as he jailed Hopkin for 14 months. ....
A HOSPICE carer who used a dying man’s bank card for a spending spree has been jailed for her “systematic and wicked” crime. Lynn Hopkin, 54, stole £17,241.60 from Robin Clark as she went about using his money to fund a variety of purchases, including holidays. A Bournemouth Crown Court hearing on Friday, April 30, was told Hopkin carried out 101 transactions on the card. This offending started days after Mr Clark was transferred to Forest Holme hospice from hospital in summer 2019. The spending continued over several weeks, and was discovered when one of his executors visited a cashpoint after his death to find his bank account had been “drained of every last penny”. ....