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Air travel regulator ‘has been doing half a job by ignoring airlines’

By Fleur Perry on 8th August 2019 Category: Transport

Air travel regulator ‘has been doing half a job by ignoring airlines’
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The aviation regulator is only doing “half the job” by reporting on access at airports but failing to carry out similar investigations into whether airlines are meeting their legal duties to disabled customers, it has been claimed. The Civil Aviation Authority […]

More than half of disabled passengers still find air travel difficult, says regulator

By John Pring on 18th July 2019 Category: Transport

More than half of disabled passengers still find air travel difficult, says regulator
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More than half of passengers who describe themselves as having an impairment that limits their day-today activity find travelling by air difficult, according to a regulator’s annual report on access at the UK’s major airports. The Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) annual […]

Protests force council climbdown over inaccessible Peterloo memorial

By John Pring on 11th July 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Protests force council climbdown over inaccessible Peterloo memorial
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Disabled activists and their allies have forced a council into a significant climbdown over its “discriminatory” plans for a memorial to victims of the Peterloo massacre. Manchester City Council (MCC) said this week that it had asked artist Jeremy Deller to […]

Praise for cake shop chain that admitted access faults, and put them right

By John Pring on 20th June 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Praise for cake shop chain that admitted access faults, and put them right
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A chain of cake shops has thanked a disabled campaigner for drawing its attention to access failures that prevented wheelchair-users entering three of its stores. Konditor said it was “ashamed” of its previous access failings and has apologised to “anyone who […]

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: ‘Rail industry must be forced to act on access’

By John Pring on 23rd May 2019 Category: Transport

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: ‘Rail industry must be forced to act on access’
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The rail industry is breaching its duties under the Equality Act by failing to ensure that vital buttons and other fixtures and fittings on different trains are always positioned in the same location, say disabled trade unionists. Union members called on […]

Government finally acts on Changing Places call

By John Pring on 16th May 2019 Category: Independent Living

Government finally acts on Changing Places call
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New large public buildings such as shopping centres, sports stadiums and cinema complexes will soon have to include a Changing Places accessible toilet, according to government proposals. The government has announced a consultation on the plans – which will also affect […]

No 10 access information will remain secret… because of terrorist threat

By John Pring on 2nd May 2019 Category: Politics

No 10 access information will remain secret… because of terrorist threat
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Documents that could reveal why the government has refused to remove the two iconic – and inaccessible – steps that lead to the front door of 10 Downing Street will not be released, because of a risk that the information could […]

MPs praise campaigners who received threats and abuse over access court cases

By John Pring on 31st January 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

MPs praise campaigners who received threats and abuse over access court cases
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MPs have heard how disabled campaigners were abused and threatened, while one was even reported to the police, after taking legal actions against service-providers for disability discrimination. Esther Leighton and Doug Paulley (pictured) were praised by MPs for their campaigning work, […]

DWP accused over ‘less than truthful’ Purple funding claims

By John Pring on 6th December 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DWP accused over ‘less than truthful’ Purple funding claims
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused of misleading disabled people about its links to the disability organisation that organised a controversial accessible shopping event. Disabled activists called last month for a boycott of Purple Tuesday, the UK’s […]

High streets ‘need to wake up to the need to communicate with disabled people’

By John Pring on 18th October 2018 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

High streets ‘need to wake up to the need to communicate with disabled people’
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Struggling high street businesses need to “wake up” to the need to communicate with disabled people and their potential £200 billion spending power, according to the founder of an accessibility information website. Dr Gregory Burke told Disability News Service that he […]

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