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Douglas Campbell: Tributes to ‘mobility champion with a kind heart’

By John Pring on 2nd January 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Douglas Campbell: Tributes to ‘mobility champion with a kind heart’
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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 […]

‘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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