An Australian quadriplegic, who last month won a landmark legal right to starve to death, has died. Christian Rossiter, 49, died in a nursing home in Perth, West Australia, after developing a chest infection. A former outdoor adventurer, he had won...

Eighteen thalidomide survivors from Northern Ireland are to share £1.1m of government compensation. Thalidomide was a drug given to pregnant women to combat common symptoms of early pregnancy. It was withdrawn from use in the early 1960s when it was...

The family of a girl who was left disabled at birth because of errors made by hospital staff in Dorset has won a £100,000 compensation battle. Mother Julie-Ann Nash suffers from gestational diabetes which caused her baby, Laura, to be bigger than...

Sir Paul McCartney’s ex-wife Heather Mills has been voted off ITV1 show Dancing on Ice after losing out to actor Kieron Richardson. Mills – who has had difficulty doing some of the skating moves because of her prosthetic leg – said she was glad her...

I’ve just found out that DisAbled challenger Julie McElroy, who was first covered by Same Difference in 2008 when she helped wheelchair users climb Ben Nevis to raise money for charity, is planning to cycle 350 miles across the Gobi Desert next...

This was sent to me by my friend Sapna Ramnani. Do you or someone you know have special needs or a disability? Have you been through a special needs school or were you part of a mainstream school? What are your experiences of those environments and...