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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 […]

Welcome for new blue badge rules, but concerns remain

By John Pring on 20th June 2019 Category: Transport

Welcome for new blue badge rules, but concerns remain
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Disabled campaigners have welcomed new rules that will make it easier for autistic people and others with invisible impairments to secure blue parking badges, but they have also raised concerns about how they will work in practice. The new government rules […]

Company praised for ‘first accessible parking bay for charging electric vehicles’

By John Pring on 10th January 2019 Category: Transport

Company praised for ‘first accessible parking bay for charging electric vehicles’
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Campaigners have welcomed the decision to install what is believed to be the country’s first accessible parking bay for disabled people who need to recharge their electric vehicles. Only holders of blue parking badges who also need to recharge their electric […]

Action needed to make major roads more accessible, says watchdog

By John Pring on 29th November 2018 Category: Transport

Action needed to make major roads more accessible, says watchdog
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A transport watchdog is calling for action to make the network of major roads across England more accessible to disabled drivers and passengers. A new Transport Focus report, An Accessible Road Network?, centres mainly on the barriers disabled people face in […]

Motability row sparks anger and demand to use huge reserves to support customers

By John Pring on 15th February 2018 Category: Transport

Motability row sparks anger and demand to use huge reserves to support customers
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Disabled campaigners have reacted to the political row over the Motability car scheme by calling for the organisation that runs it to use part of its huge financial reserves to increase support for disabled people. Details emerged in a newspaper last […]

Disabled-led scheme will address ‘shocking’ car park access failures

By John Pring on 24th November 2016 Category: Transport

Disabled-led scheme will address ‘shocking’ car park access failures
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A new accreditation scheme should make it easier for disabled people to find a car park that meets their access needs. The People’s Parking scheme already has about 150 car parks signed up across the UK and hopes to reach 200 […]

Rights campaigner ‘knocked for six’ by MBE

By John Pring on 19th June 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Rights campaigner ‘knocked for six’ by MBE
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A disabled campaigner has described how he was “knocked for six” after learning that he had been recognised with an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours. Shaun Webster becomes one of a select group of people with learning difficulties who have […]

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