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By Tom McDonough A disabled people’s motoring organisation has warned its future is at risk, even as it has been celebrating its 100th anniversary. Disabled Motoring UK (DMUK) is set for a “crucial” board meeting on 23 February where trustees will […]
Plans to widen the ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) in the capital will discriminate against tens of thousands of disabled Londoners and cause significant harm to many of them, a senior representative of the mayor of London has been told. Disabled people’s […]
A disabled artist is being forced to pay hundreds of pounds in clean air zone fines every month because of her council’s refusal to make reasonable adjustments for her fluctuating health conditions. Shiva Page fears she will have to give up […]
The mayor of London’s plans for a huge expansion of the capital’s low emission zone for cars could have a drastic and discriminatory impact on disabled people, say campaigners. They fear that the current, limited exemptions for disabled people will leave […]
Campaigners are calling for “critical” changes to rules that make it harder for disabled people to use their blue parking badges in four central London local authorities, particularly when they are attending urgent hospital appointments. They say the COVID-19 pandemic has […]
Tributes have been paid to Douglas Campbell, who spent more than half a century campaigning for “proper independent mobility” for disabled people, and who died in the early hours of Boxing Day. In addition to his campaigning work, he spent more […]
The health secretary has been confronted by a campaigner after government figures revealed the number of hospitals charging disabled people to use their carparks rose by 12 per cent in just a year. Kush Kanodia, a disabled ambassador for Disability Rights […]
An activist whose local authority warns disabled people that it could take up to 12 weeks to renew their blue parking badges is calling for disabled people in other parts of the country to pass on their experiences of problems and […]
Disability charities have helped the government cover up the reason it was forced to announce changes to rules that prevented thousands of disabled people with invisible impairments secure blue parking badges. The Department for Transport (DfT) won widespread praise this week […]
A disabled MP has introduced new legislation that would ban all NHS hospitals from “rip-off” parking charges imposed on patients, staff and visitors. The Conservative MP Robert Halfon, a former minister and now chair of the Commons education select committee, said […]