Cerebral Palsy

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"It was an automatic product and a bit too expensive for the market," he told the BBC News website.

His second version is far simpler - a tray attached to a column which, itself, is fixed to a wall or kitchen cabinet.

The tray is then wound up and down the column by turning a handle which includes a clutch device.

Mr Dinham believes that his typical customer will be an older person who finds it difficult to bend down - particularly someone who has recently had a hip replacement.

Naidex - Wizzybug "There are 30,000 new hip joints in this country every year, so there's a huge market for a piece of equipment like this," he said.

Although he currently assembles the units himself, Mr Dinham is planning to outsource the manufacturing to a UK-based company as demand increases.

He has already started selling his device abroad including to a satisfied customer in the USA who wanted one in time for his wife's birthday.

"We got it to him in five days by air-freight - he was really chuffed." Naidex 2007 is at the NEC in Birmingham from April 24 - 26.

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Loralee can't speak or eat by herself but her bright, active mind and engaging smile captured Dorothy's heart, and at age 63, she adopted the 8-year-old.

Loralee is now 31 and still living with Dorothy.

Gustafson said he had to play a gentle trick to get Dorothy to the Rotary luncheon, "or she never would have come." The lunch, he fibbed, was about Loralee.

But the goal was met, and one of those "truly behind the scenes" people, as Gustafson calls her, has now been honored for her unselfishness.

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