Hi all, I went to my local branch of Natwest (where I bank) to open a basic bank account for my 19yr old daughter who has autism/severe learning difficulties and has a mental age of around 3yrs old but they refused to open her an account. They said they could not open an account because she would not know what she is signing for. I could understand if I tried to get her a gold account/loan/credit card, but just for a basic bank account so she can have her ema and dla paid into I find is stupid. Is this discrimination? If so what can I do about it? Any advice would be welcome as I need to sort something asap for her. Many thanks Jo

Hi all new to this but would like to know if any ones had a bad vets experience, complained and got a result. I took my cat scooby to my usual vets approx 2-3yrs ago with a smelly discharge from her ears and the 1st vet told me it was ear mites and subsequently treated her for this. A few months later it was back again, 2nd vet (u know how it is you never get to see the same one, like our doctors) said it was an infection and gave her an antibiotic jab and antibiotic ear drops (said she would have to be on them for life), we carried on back and forth over time and then we took her back earlier this year because the discharge starting getting blood in it. The 3rd vet said she had loads of cysts down both ears and gave her more antibiotics but said she could not be on them for life as she is like us and would get immune to them or the other option would be to have her put to sleep (shes 7yrs old). I asked if there was an operation that could be done to remove the cysts but advised no. Luckily and unluckily she got fly strike on the 4th Sept and I took her to another vets because I had seriously lost faith in my 1st ones. While she was under the operation for the fly strike I asked them to check her ears for me and the found 1 very large tumour in the right ear and a few smaller tumours in her left ear. They advised an operation to remove the middle ear section of the right ear and a possible same procedure of the left ear. This was carried out Thursday 8th and all tumours sent to the lab. Had results today and left ear tumours are all clear but they are not sure about the right so going to have to keep an eye on her lymph nodes and she will have to have regular check ups incase they return. I have applied to my old vets for all scoobys case notes and am going to go further from there. Any advise would be welcome.