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A local authority has been heavily criticised for introducing new ways of consulting on disability issues that will exclude most disabled people from taking part. East Riding of Yorkshire Council…

Some bus companies are taking advantage of a loophole that means they can avoid their legal obligations to ensure their buses are accessible to disabled people, the industry’s own trade…

Football’s Premier League will break a pledge that all of its stadiums would be accessible to disabled football fans by next August, despite its clubs spending more than a billion…

A new user-led project will help disabled people in London use the law to fight for their independent living rights, and combat the discrimination they face from providers of goods…

She joined Hannah Cockroft on her lap of honour after finishing seventh behind Britain’s double gold medallist in the T34 200 metres in London 2012. But four years on, Mel…

The government could have saved nearly £48 billion in social care costs over five years if it had funded all the work needed to make disabled people’s homes more accessible,…

A disabled campaigner has launched a new photo-based website that has put decades of his work online, in a bid to share information about the accessibility of venues across Britain…

The disabled chair of the organisation that will manage Britain’s team at September’s Paralympic Games in Brazil has explained how it plans to use their sporting performances in Rio and…

The BBC’s disabled security correspondent has spoken of his wish for a “normalisation of disability” in society. Frank Gardner, who was giving the third annual Jack Ashley Memorial Lecture, said…

Campaigners and experts say they fear that Britain’s vote to leave the European Union (EU) could have serious consequences for disabled people, although it is too early for an accurate…