As many as 39% of people from the East Midlands who travelled abroad in the past 12 months did so without the right cover, took part in activities which may not have been covered, or didn’t have any insurance at all, according to ABTA – The Travel Association1.

Heather Wheeler, Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire, joined with Swadlincote Tourist Information Centre and Chairman of South Derbyshire District Council, Cllr Michael Stanton, to highlight South Derbyshire’s tourism industry during English Tourism Week which runs from 17th-25th March 2018

It is sad to say that during the 1970s and early 1980s some blood and blood products supplied by the NHS, mostly to haemophilia sufferers, were found to be contaminated with HIV and Hepatitis C.