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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Helena Smith in Paphos

‘It could all have been so different’: how support offered by a hospice in Cyprus came too late for one British couple

Chris Jones at the villa in Pahos that will soon become a hospice.
Chris Jones at the villa in Pahos that will soon become a hospice. Photograph: Helena Smith/the Observer

In the hills above Paphos, at the end of a cul-de-sac in the village of Tala, Chris Jones is giving a guided tour of what has become his life’s work: transforming a two-storey villa into a palliative care facility.

As the late afternoon sun shimmers over the sea beyond, Jones, a retired headmaster, points out the areas that will soon become the hospice’s lift and nurses’ station, oxygen and buzzer systems.

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