Ballet school takes steps to help sufferers of Parkinson's
Shall we dance? ENB's Jennie Harrington works on the Parkinson's
programme  A leading London ballet school is holding classes for
Parkinson's sufferers after a study suggested dancing relieved
symptoms of the disease.  English National Ballet hopes its
Dance for Parkinson's scheme will improve patients' quality of
life.  It commissioned a Roehampton University study which
showed that dance may temporarily ease effects of the
debilitating neurological condition and improve short-term
mobility.  The scheme has now been backed with £97,000 from the
Paul Hamlyn Foundation which will see it expand from London to
four satellite programmes across Britain.  About 120,000 people
in the UK have Parkinson's, a condition that causes nerve cells
in the brain to die and has no cure.  Patients in London told
the BBC during the filming of a documentary for Inside Out,
which airs tonight, that ballet had made a difference to their
lives.  One sufferer, Jane, who was