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Article: Rival firm financed residents'anti-unit campaign

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September 5, 2005
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Alexandra Wood

ONE of the country's largest providers of psychiatric care was accused of dirty tricks last night after it emerged that is had helped to bankroll a campaign against a secure unit in East Yorkshire.

For over a year Holland House Action Group has been trying to stop the new [Pounds]3.3m building in the grounds of a former nursing home at Hook, near Goole, from opening as a low or medium secure unit for people with personality disorders.

It was supposed to have started taking patients last November but has stood empty because of a planning wrangle between the developers PD Services and East Riding Council. A public inqury begins tomorrow over planning issues, which should at ...

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