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By guest on 6th July 2014 Category: Archive, News Archive

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Who are the disabled people who have the most significant impact on the way we live today? Well over a year after Disability News Service began the process of finding the UK’s most influential disabled people, we are finally ready to […]

Scottish independence: A lifeboat for disabled people drowning in a sea of cuts

By guest on 1st December 2013 Category: News Archive

Scottish independence: A lifeboat for disabled people drowning in a sea of cuts
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On Tuesday, the Scottish government published it’s white paper on independence, Scotland’s Future. Despite being 670 pages long, not half an hour had passed before former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling appeared on our screens informing us that it contained “nothing new”. […]

US govt advisor says Paralympics could help on DLA and inclusive schools

By guest on 6th September 2012 Category: News Archive

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A senior US government advisor has suggested that the London 2012 Paralympics could help disabled people in their fight against the UK government’s cuts to disability benefits and its opposition to inclusive education. The comments by Judith Heumann the US Department […]

COMMENT: The Atos cover-up continues

By guest on 6th September 2012 Category: News Archive

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On Tuesday, I wrote about how myself and my fellow disabled journalist Paul Carter had taken a black marker pen to the prominent Atos logos on our London 2012 media accreditation. As I wrote then, it was a small, but satisfying, […]

London 2012: Deaf star’s anger over latest LOCOG access failure

By guest on 5th September 2012 Category: News Archive

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A leading Deaf dance and film performer has launched an angry attack on the organisers of the Paralympic Games over their failure to provide any facilities for Deaf spectators at a key London 2012 venue. David Bower, previously best-known for his […]

London 2012: Government refuses to say if Miller will present medals

By guest on 5th September 2012 Category: News Archive

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The government has refused to say if the former minister for disabled people will present any medals to Paralympic athletes over the final days of London 2012. The failure to clarify whether Maria Miller – announced yesterday (Tuesday) as the new […]

COMMENT: ‘Devastation’ as keeper’s brilliance denies GB place in semi-final

By guest on 5th September 2012 Category: News Archive

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“Devastated, absolutely devastated, ” was how captain David Clarke described how he felt after GB’s five-a-side (blind) football side yesterday failed to secure the two-goal victory they needed to qualify for the semi-finals. “I am absolutely destroyed by what has happened […]

COMMENT: Blanking out Atos with a black pen

By guest on 4th September 2012 Category: News Archive

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It was a small gesture of solidarity, nothing more, but I have to admit that it was satisfying. Taking my new black Staedtler permanent marker pen and blanking out the word “Atos” on my Paralympic accreditation and the “lanyard” that hangs […]

COMMENT: Weir and Co banish thoughts of LOCOG

By guest on 3rd September 2012 Category: News Archive

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After discovering that LOCOG has refused – yes, refused – to provide information to visitors to the Olympic Park in accessible formats, I needed some top-notch, edge-of-the-seat sporting action to help lift my jaw off the floor. And to remind me […]

New network aims to unite disability movement

By guest on 3rd September 2012 Category: News Archive

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Many of the country’s leading disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and disabled activists have agreed to set up a new campaigning network in a bid to unite the disability movement. They hope their new network will bring together the traditional disability movement […]

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