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Disabled students ‘face appalling barriers’ at latest university to face discrimination claims

By John Pring on 13th August 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled students ‘face appalling barriers’ at latest university to face discrimination claims
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Disabled students have launched a new campaign aimed at convincing their university to address the discrimination they face on campus. They say the University of Exeter (pictured) is plagued by access barriers and a failure to provide reasonable adjustments under the […]

Holiday Inn hotel plans to rip out hoist from its only accessible bathroom

By John Pring on 6th August 2020 Category: Independent Living

Holiday Inn hotel plans to rip out hoist from its only accessible bathroom
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The multi-national company behind Holiday Inn is to investigate why one of its hotels made the “discriminatory” decision to remove a ceiling hoist from its only accessible bathroom. Holiday Inn’s Bloomsbury hotel in central London – close to two major London […]

Council confesses: ‘We have no idea how many of our buildings are accessible’

By John Pring on 2nd July 2020 Category: Independent Living

Council confesses: ‘We have no idea how many of our buildings are accessible’
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A local council has admitted that it has no idea how many of the buildings it owns and rents to businesses are accessible to disabled people. The admission by Scarborough council came after it refused to force a restaurant and bar […]

University leaves disabled student segregated at the back of lectures

By John Pring on 13th February 2020 Category: Education

University leaves disabled student segregated at the back of lectures
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A disabled student has been left “isolated” and “segregated” by her university’s failure to make her lectures accessible to her. Sarah-Marie Da Silva, a first-year zoology student and a wheelchair-user, has been trying since her first day on the course to […]

Pub that replaced its accessible toilet with a kitchen faces council action

By John Pring on 9th January 2020 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Pub that replaced its accessible toilet with a kitchen faces council action
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The owner of a pub who ripped out an accessible toilet and replaced it with a kitchen has been compared by a disabled campaigner to a business putting up a “whites only” sign in its window. Darren Nolan, the owner of […]

Tourist attraction could face legal action after ‘years of access failings’

By John Pring on 22nd August 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Tourist attraction could face legal action after ‘years of access failings’
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A world-renowned London tourist attraction could soon be facing legal action after failing for years to address its glaring access flaws, according to a former adviser. Disabled broadcaster, journalist and access consultant Mik Scarlet said it was “shocking” that a top […]

Disability Labour crowdfunds costs for conference access hub after party ‘snub’

By John Pring on 22nd August 2019 Category: Politics

Disability Labour crowdfunds costs for conference access hub after party ‘snub’
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Disabled delegates who are providing free access and mental health advice and support to delegates at next month’s Labour conference have had to launch an “embarrassing” crowdfunding appeal after they say the party refused to pay for any free accommodation. At […]

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 […]

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