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"1 Leicester's only Karaoke Centre for sales hire repairs Bring some fun to your Christmas this year with a CD graphics player from £199 loke discs microphones I 509 260008 (Part of the Computabase Group) THURSDAY DECEMBER 4th 1997 No 526 PART OF THE LEICESTER MAIL GROUP TEL: 0116 222 4600 CLASSIFIEDS: 251 5151 lOp WHERE SOLD Three more women tell how electric shock therapy took their memory One of the old former Shepshed- -year-eptionist from she has not been THREE local women have spoken of the impact on their lives of electric shock therapy they underwent in hospital In a Mail report last week Barbara Arden-Rowe told how she had suffered memory loss after undergoing Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT) at the Towers Hospital in Leicester 14 years ago Two of the new cases that have emerged are of women who say they are suffering from similar symptoms after receiving the same type of treatment A third said she only narrowly missed undergoing sessions of the treatment after seeing the effects it had on another patient None wished to be named about it but the doctors at the hospital obviously She gave the Mail a vivid account of the treatment she received at the Springfield Hospital in Tooting Bee She said: stood in a queue with our gowns on and they gave us an anaesthetic before the ECT main memory is that it was like queueing up in a concentration camp was like a horror story of your own life You question what doctors did in those days but I never forgave them for it first time I was treated I understood that you would lose our memory for one hour iut I lost mine for about three at the Towers Hospital in 1969 said doctors have since told her that her memory could have been affected if she had allowed doctors to continue the treatment The 69-year-old said she had no idea what the therapy was doing to her until she stumbled into a room at the hospital and claims she saw a dreadful epileptic fit one patient was going through as ECT was applied A third woman who lives in Loughborough underwent the same treatment at the hospital in the 1980s She feels there is something missing from her life and said if she had known what the side-effects would have been she would not have had the treatment second time I lost my memory for a day I actually went down on my knees and begged the doctor not to do it he got more nurses and using brute force they put me on the bed was unconscious for about two-and-a-half days with a drip and a doctor sitting by my bed The patient next to me said they had been running about day and night looking after Dreadful She added care what anybody says they should not use this Another woman from Stoney-gate in Leicester who says she underwent two sessions of ECT able to read a novel since she was treated after a nervous breakdown 30 years ago She said she used to enjoy reading poetry and Shakespeare but now has to make do with recordings of novels because she remember what just read Epilepsy She said: I was treated they know that I had epilepsy I was having night fits but epilepsy was such a dirty word in those days that it just discussed know if my GP knew Jungle Book thrills THE HEAD of Loughborough University has joined a task force set up to advise the Government on which sporting events should continue to be shown on TV for free The Sports Minister is looking forward to it a due to make a decision lot and it will be very StJ- TURN TO PAGE 7 Mailbox 2 Prize time 1 1 TV Guide 14-15 Leisuretfme 18 Drivetime 22 I next Easter on which of the so-called of sport should stay on the five terrestrial channels and which ones should go to the highest bidder for pay-per-view broadcast University vice-chancellor Prof David Wallace will team up with seven other sporting experts and distinguished figures including Jack Charlton Michael Parkinson and Steve Cram on the consultation body They were due to meet in London for the first time on Tuesday this week and will try to provide an answer to the political hot potato of whether or not televised sport needs better protection Events currently protected include Wimbledon the FA Cup final the Grand National the Olympics and cricket test matches in England They will also look at whether others like the British Grand Prix Commonwealth Games and Five Nations rugby tournament should also be included Prof Wallace said: interesting meeting people like Michael Parkinson Jack Charlton and Steve Cram not very sure why I was chosen in particular but it seems fairly obvious that we have all been chosen as individuals for our different input are a number of issues regarding sport which need to be looked into and because of the money that comes from broadcasting all particularly complex it had been simple the minister would have just gone ahead Money know you could say that everybody would like to see the great sporting events for free but that ignores the amount of money coming into sports from broadcasting deals for example to develop youngsters where we might not otherwise have the money to do He added: personal view is neither here nor there because this is about sports that have a wider resonance in the whole of the Shows at school ILDREN at Booth Wood Primary School in Loughborough were treated to a performance of one of the all-timegreats last week The Theatre Company currently touring schools in the county laid on a performance of Rudyard classic tale The Jungle Book The youngsters watched as the tale unfolded of the man-cub Mowgli who is adopted by wolves when his parents are killed by the vicious tiger Shere Khan As he grows up friends like Bagneera the black panther and Baioo the bear show him the laws of the jungle and guide him through the dangers of life acters and most of the children knew who each one was by their Meanwhile Youth Arts which oversees the Theatre Company is calling on young county performers to come forward for a chance of travelling to next Edinburgh Festival The Loughborough-based group has been holding rehearsals at Rawlins Community College Quom and any youngsters keen on joining in can get details from Terry Allen on 01509 213675 JUNGLE LOOK: Matt Wardle and Paul HoiHng-worth in performance at the school in the wilderness The play had two showings to allow all 250 pupils to get a good chance to see the special Christmas production After watching the show teacher Penny Smith said: "The chidren really enjoyed it and afl had a good laugh acting was very good and the chidren could all tell what was going on At the end the cast asked LOUGHBOROUGH MAIL: 44554 copies weekly LEICESTER MAIL CROUP: 21 A 50 A (December-June 1 99 7).