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Hello, I'm Michelle Hussein and this is from our home correspondent on BBC Radio 4.

Our pieces this time include a trip to a goth festival in Yorkshire where

there is a personal connection to Bram Stoker. We're hearing about the

restoration of Strawberry Field, the house that inspired the Beatles song.

How the Islanders of Lewis are preparing to commemorate their own First World War tragedy,

the drowning of a hundred and eighty-one servicemen returning from the battlefield.

And the road in the Ken Gorms that makes the news at this time of year when its closure tells us

that winter has come.

First though, the very young and the very old, together.

The benefits of small children and the elderly spending time together will be obvious to some,

but the Department of Health and Social Care wants it to become routine among organizations

that provide care.

Last year, a nursery was set up in the grounds of a Jewish residential

care home in southwest London and Emma Jane Kirby has been to see the

intergenerational Program in Action.

There's a definite atmosphere brewing at the Apples and Honey Nursery.

Fay has just discovered that Martha had a party to celebrate her fourth birthday and she was not on the guest list.

I thought you were my friend, Pouts Faye indignantly.

Martha stops pounding the does she's needing for her halabread and carefully

licks the flower from her fingers.

You are my friend, she reassures Faye patiently, but it was only children at the party, no grown-ups.

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