Chillow, the personal cooling pad that can help soothe the intense itching of eczema, is offering a special ‘buy one, get one half price’ offer on all Chillow personal cooling pads bought during National Eczema Week (13-21 September 2008). [MEA note: This product can also help people with ME/CFS who suffer regular night sweats.]

BBC Midlands Today, August 29

This news item includes an interview with Ian Logan, chairman, Worcestershire ME Support Group. Brief mention of tissue being taken for research at the end.

Jacqui and Carl Alban bought an old cotton mill in Brittany, north west France, and then spent a small fortune converting it into six luxury apartments for disabled holidaymakers. The couple, who created British-owned business "I Need a Holiday Too!",  then discovered another amazing little secret – the advertising pages on this website!

From the Belfast Telegraph letters page, August 26

We write referring to the Belfast Telegraph article (August 12) on a mother coping with her 15- year-old son David, who suffers from ME.

 From The Guardian, 18 August 2008

BBC Radio 4 You and Yours today interviewed Anne McGuire, Minister for Disabled people, and put a number of listeners' questions to her. ME/CFS and incapacity benefit came up in the second half of the 13-minute discussion. Listen here

From the Edinburgh Evening News, August 16

A support group for people with chronic and debilitating fatigue has accused NHS Lothian of "burying" a report that criticises the way sufferers are cared for within the health service.

A Canadian website has rediscovered "Claire's Story" –  a film lasting almost eight minutes which was first broadcast as part of the "Inside Out" series by BBC East of England some years ago. The film was made by the BBC after The ME Association's publicity manager put them in touch with Jane Colby of the Young ME Sufferers Trust, who knew Claire and her family.

Instead of their traditional format of serving up a main speaker (or two) for their annual conference, this year Sheffield ME Group will be holding a series of four workshops at the event on Saturday, October 18.

Since the page was launched on 26 July last year, 12,000 people have visited our page dedicated to providing up-to-date information on NHS specialist services for people with ME throughout England.

ME sufferer David Christie (15) has to spend 19 hours a day in bed. His mum, Antoinette, talks to Gráinne MCCarry of the Belfast Telegraph.

From the Aberdeen Press and Journal, 11 August 2008

MORE than 20 hardy souls completed the 32km trek through the Lairig Ghru to increase awareness of ME, the chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalopathy.

One of Northern Ireland's most prominent ME fundraisers, Antoinette Christie, and Horace Reid, from the Northern Ireland ME Association, appeared on a late night show on Downtown Radio on August 6 – with MEA medical adviser Dr Charles Shepherd and Dr Derek Enlander, from New York, joining the discussion.

Good article about ME from the 'Worcester News", 30 July 2008.

HOW do you go from a high-flyer to a bed-ridden zombie who finds even speech a soul-destroying struggle? To find out, you need look no further than Joe Green, a once hard-working financial director who reached the pinnacle of his profession only to plummet to unimaginable depths.

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ME Research UK are offering the four-DVD set of this year's  Cambridge conference for just £5, including  post and packing (within the UK).

Shortly after Luke Collyer sensationally quit the 18-months-long Amazon Walk benefitting the ME Association's tissue-bank appeal – after a series of differences with his trekking partner  Ed Stafford – Ed had this amazing and uproariously funny email interview with Sarah Staples, a reporter with the "Leicester Mercury".

   The author of Britain's brightest new book about ME, Nasim Marie Jafry, signed dozens of copies at the book launch in Edinburgh's Waterstone's bookshop last week.

To mark the recent 20th anniversary of their formation, Sussex and Kent ME/CFS Society have relaunched their website in a new format.