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Train company faces calls to rip up scooter policy after latest ‘shameful’ episode

By John Pring on 9th August 2018 Category: Transport

Train company faces calls to rip up scooter policy after latest ‘shameful’ episode
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A rail company is facing calls to change its “reprehensible and unsupportable” attitude to disabled passengers, after one of its guards threatened to throw a woman off a train because she was using a mobility scooter. Sara Harvey was on the […]

Minister calls on her own government to act on ‘shared space’ street designs

By John Pring on 5th July 2018 Category: Independent Living

Minister calls on her own government to act on ‘shared space’ street designs
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The minister for disabled people is calling on her own government to take “urgent action” to address concerns about the dangers of “shared space” street developments. Sarah Newton called for action in letters she wrote to both the minister for transport […]

‘Muddled’ blue badge reforms ‘are to blame for renewal delays’

By John Pring on 6th February 2015 Category: Independent Living, News Archive

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The government’s refusal to introduce a national system to administer applications for blue parking badges is to blame for lengthy delays and backlogs across the country, according to a leading disabled motoring expert. Last month, retired Paralympian Steve Varden described the […]

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