Another special awareness day

摘要

A year ago (PJ, 28 September 2007, p362), one of the contributors to this page discussed the preponderance of "awareness days" that seem to be foisted upon us, often with exhortations to look out for sufferers of a particular condition during the awareness day or week. However, not all such days are concerned with medical topics. Merlin recendy discovered that, in 2004, Salford City Council and BBC Radio Manchester nominated 29 October as National Eccles Cake Day.