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Sheltered housing managers respond to residents' concerns

Managers of a sheltered accommodation unit in Exeter - where a woman is believed to have lain dead for several days before being discovered - have reinstated a system for checking the welfare of residents.


Some of the elderly people living in Gainsborough House wrote to Guinness Care and Support, who run it, to raise their concerns, after the discovery of the body of 64 year old Carole Kelly last month.

In a letter copied to local MP Ben Bradshaw and their ward councillor Richard Branston, they said there'd previously been a visiting warden and a Tannoy system for calling all residents to make sure they were safe and well.

Councillor Branston says he and Ben Bradshaw met the unit's managers earlier this week and that the Tannoy system is now up and running again.

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