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Anger after equality campaign rewards Premier League club that fails access test

May 14, 2015
Ian Streets
Disabled campaigners are furious that an organisation that fights discrimination in football has given a prestigious equality award to one of the world’s richest football clubs, Chelsea, despite its continuing…
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Early election access reports ‘positive’, despite voting privacy concerns

May 14, 2015
Ian Streets
Last week’s general election appears to have seen an improvement in access to polling stations for disabled voters, at least according to early reports. Disability charities have been highlighting the…
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Six years on, Trailblazers go back undercover on buses, trains and taxis

April 30, 2015
Ian Streets
Young disabled campaigners are to go undercover across the UK to find out whether access to public transport has improved since they carried out a “damning” study six years ago.…
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Disabled peer calls on wheelchair-users to demand NHS improvements

April 30, 2015
Ian Streets
One of Britain’s greatest Paralympic athletes has called on wheelchair-users to back a new push to transform wheelchair services across England. Retired Paralympic legend Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson, now a crossbench…
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Tserkezie moves from Balamory’s village shop to TV production

April 23, 2015
Ian Streets
One of the country’s best-known disabled actors is hoping that her own TV production company will create more roles for disabled performers, and nurture talent from the north-east of England.…
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Trio who ‘avoided hate crime sentence for second time’ show law ‘is a joke’

March 20, 2015
Ian Streets
Three thugs who carried out vicious attacks on young disabled men have avoided being sentenced for hate crime for the second time, raising fresh questions about the criminal justice system’s…
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Harper stays silent over his “totally unacceptable” office access measures

March 19, 2015
Ian Streets
The minister for disabled people has been heavily criticised for failing to ensure that his constituency office is accessible to disabled people, after Disability News Service (DNS) confirmed that a…
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‘Tens of thousands of children could gain from new wheelchair laws’

March 12, 2015
Ian Streets
Tens of thousands of disabled children could benefit from a change in the law that now allows under-17s to use more advanced powered wheelchairs, campaigners claim. The amendment to existing…
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Two city buildings ‘design out disabled visitors’ by scrapping blue badge spaces

March 5, 2015
Ian Streets
Two major cultural institutions in Manchester have been criticised for “designing out disabled people” by removing all of their on-site blue badge parking spaces during multi-million pound renovation programmes. Manchester…
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Mobile revolution ‘is making disabled people more appealing as employees’

March 5, 2015
Ian Streets
The mobile computing revolution is helping to make disabled people more “appealing” to potential employers, as well as to providers of goods and services, according to a leading disabled telecommunications…
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