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Feb 6, 2012, 7:00 pm
Dear Readers,
Offline life has taken over. I have to take an unexpected break from blogging for a while. I’ll post again as soon as I can.
Until then, I leave you in the very capable hands of Kaliya Franklin, Sue Marsh, Martyn Sibley and Disability Horizons for a fair mix of disability politics ... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2012, 7:59 am
A woman left partially blind in one eye after an acid attack has had her sight restored following stem-cell surgery.
Doctors at the Queen Victoria Hospital in West Sussex took tissue from an anonymous donor, grew it and then stitched it into Katie Piper’s damaged eye.
She told Victoria Derbyshir... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2012, 7:25 am
Lady Grey-Thompson, one of the UK’s most successful elite sportswomen and Crossbench peer in the House of Lords, discusses her reservations about the government’s welfare reform bill, how society’s attitudes to disabled people have hardened, and why Paralympians should join the disability righ... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2012, 7:22 am
A government minister has insisted there is “no shortage of jobs”, blaming unemployment on people’s unwillingness to apply for the work available.
Maria Miller, the minister for disabled people in the Department for Work and Pensions, said on Sunday night she believed the unemployment problem... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2012, 7:15 pm
At 24, Holly Ferrie has to cope with disruption to her life on a scale few of her age could recognise. A complex and as yet not fully diagnosed arthritis-related condition causes her almost constant pain in her legs and feet. On occasions, her legs are seized by agonising spasms.
Yet Ferrie fears s... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2012, 7:00 pm
The government’s focus on alleged fraud and overclaiming to justify cuts in disability benefits has caused an increase in resentment and abuse directed at disabled people, as they find themselves being labelled as scroungers, six of the country’s biggest disability groups have warned.
Some of t... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2012, 9:34 pm
I have just had the most interesting, unusual night. We got all dressed up to do the Saturday supermarket shop, but when we stepped outside we were greeted by slushy, snowy, watery stuff. If you’ve been watching the weather forecast this weekend, you’ll know this was not unexpected altogether- i... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2012, 8:55 am
I, for one, am glad these adverts were banned. They were insensitive.
A Christian group has been banned from claiming that God can heal illnesses on its website and in leaflets.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it had concluded that the adverts by Healing on the Streets (HOTS) – Ba... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2012, 9:12 am
R&B and gospel singer David Peaston, best known for the tracks Two Wrongs (Don’t Make it Right) and Can I?, has died aged 54.
His niece Neuka Mitchell, said the star passed away on Wednesday from complications of diabetes.
The musician, who had a string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s,... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2012, 8:58 am
Insightful documentary by director Claire Braden about five deaf teenagers as they take their first steps into the hearing world. It follows some extraordinary young people who have some extreme and surprising attitudes towards their deafness. It highlights how not all deaf teens want to be able to ... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2012, 6:44 am
Almost a year after the film reigned supreme at the Oscars, The King’s Speech has finally made it to the stage.
A packed house at the Yvonne Arnaud theatre in Guildford, Surrey, gave the play a rousing reception at its world premiere on Thursday night.
Playwright David Seidler called it “the f... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2012, 5:23 am
A charity that helps people with disabilities to enjoy horse riding has been targeted by thieves in Dorset.
Three £400 saddles were stolen from the Riding for the Disabled Association stables on Ringwood Road, Ferndown on Tuesday night.
Police said the theft of the specially-adapted saddles will ... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 7:39 pm
This is crazy.
As the UK government continues to reform the welfare system, a 52-year-old man registered blind since he was 16 has been telling BBC Wales how he has lost benefits after being assessed as being fit for work.
With incapacity benefit being scrapped, Tony Harris attended a work capabil... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 7:33 pm
Read this if you can’t believe your eyes. I couldn’t believe mine either. So, can someone please tell me who the Minister For Disabled People is now then? I hope it’s not Chris Grayling!
I’m going to paste the text below in case the Guardian later corrects the typo:
The coalition has raise... Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2012, 6:55 am
Here’s a little round up of blog posts on yesterday’s March For The Invisible in London. If you took part, please let us have a link to your post to add to this list.
Kaliya Franklin
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Jan 28, 2012, 7:00 pm
This is one of those rare times when I break my own comments policy and swear. In all seriousness- what the Hell?
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Jan 28, 2012, 5:22 pm
Disability activists and UK Uncut stop traffic for two hours, chaining themselves together across Regent Street in a demonstration against the welfare reform bill. Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2012, 11:20 am
Activists campaigning for people with disabilities are carrying out what they are calling a “disruptive act of civil disobedience” in London today to protest against the government’s Welfare Reform Bill.
The campaigners from disability groups and the group, UK Uncut argue that the new policie... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 3:08 pm
I covered his case last year. This is an update.
A man who was virtually paralysed by a stroke has won the first step in his legal bid to pursue his right-to-die.
Known only as Martin, he would require professionals to help as his wife has said she will not assist him.
But current guidance sugges... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 11:06 am
I’ve never heard of him, but it seems he’s another scribbler of rubbish.
Rod Liddle has just incurred the wrath of the disability lobby by having a go in his Sun column at “pretend disabled” people. Included in this category, Rod decided, were people with fibromyalgia and ME. Lots of people... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 8:20 am
From the Guardian’s Games Blog:
Thousands of coders are taking part in a global game development challenge, and many are being encouraged to consider a specific audience: gamers with disabilities Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2012, 8:32 pm
It may be possible to detect autism at a much earlier age than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers.A study published in Current Biology identified differences in infants’ brainwaves from as early as six months.
Behavioural symptoms of autism typically develop bet... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2012, 7:00 pm
Nick Clegg is coming under unprecedented private pressure from his own party to back a string of Lords amendments designed to protect children and those with disabilities from the impact of the government’s welfare reforms.
A letter from more than 50 former Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidat... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2012, 12:05 pm
Remember Rod Liddle, readers? I didn’t- well not until about half an hour ago, anyway. That was, until I found out that he scribbled this load of rubbish for the Sun today. (The second link will take you to a ‘freezepage’ with many thanks to the brilliant @latentexistence- for some reason be... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 10:16 am
A pedestrian killed on a road in Cumbria died saving his disabled son’s life, his family has said.
George Tyson was walking with his son on the A5087 at Conishead Bardsea on Sunday when they were hit by a car.
The 61-year-old, of Ulverston, died at the scene. His son, Garry, was injured, but not... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 7:09 am
In 1970, there were 60,000 adults and children with learning disabilities living confined, institutional lives in long-stay hospitals. That autumn, a young student newly arrived at Cardiff University agreed to help take a group of children from the city’s Ely hospital to the cinema on a Saturday m... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 6:54 am
A minor injury suffered by a disabled man when he was lifted from his aeroplane seat contributed to his death five days later, a coroner has ruled.
Robert Browne, 69, of Norwich, received bruising to his chest when being moved into an “aisle chair” at Stansted Airport, an inquest in Norwich hea... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 6:46 am
Film animation company Aardman is to change a scene in their new film which “pokes fun” at people with leprosy.
Charity Lepra Health in Action objected to the scene in the trailer for Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists! which sees an arm fall off a crew member on a “leper-boat”.
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Jan 24, 2012, 6:42 am
A serving soldier killed a disabled man in a pub car park in Wiltshire when he punched him during a row, a court has been told.
Pte Daryl Talbot, 21, from Larkhill, appeared at Salisbury Crown Court charged with the murder of 34-year-old Jon Paul Garland on 1 January.
The court was told the Univer... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 6:25 am
Some good news.
A missing 10-year-old boy with autism and a speech impediment from Coventry has been found “safe and well”, police said.
Concern for the boy had grown when he ran out of his school in Keresley at about 15:15 GMT.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said they had received reports ... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 6:21 am
A man from West Yorkshire has become the first person in Europe to take part in an embryonic stem cell trial to treat a rare eye disease.
Marcus Hilton, 34, from Wakefield, suffers from Stargardt’s macular dystrophy (SMD), which causes progressive sight loss.
The disease develops in childhood an... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 6:15 am
A man has been jailed for 10 years for the kidnap and manslaughter of a Teesside father.
Lee Woodier, 25, who was found guilty of kidnapping in September, has also been found guilty of manslaughter of John Newton from Redcar.
Woodier, of Shelley Road, Middlesbrough, was sentenced to five years eac... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 5:35 am
A press release I’ve just received:
Getting out into the countryside and onto farms need not be difficult thanks to a new initiative called Let Nature Feed Your Senses. Farms and nature reserves across the country are opening their gates and offering free visits to people that currently cannot, o... Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2012, 9:07 pm
A man who was brain damaged at birth in a Bury hospital more than 20 years ago has received a £3.35m settlement payment from the NHS.
Adam Spinks, 24, who has cerebral palsy, was born at Fairfield Hospital in December 1986.
Mr Spinks’ family said he was starved of oxygen due to mistakes at his ... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2012, 8:33 am
Dear Readers
The campaigner behind the Spartacus Report, Sue Marsh, is seriously ill in hospital. She explains all in this post at her personal blog.
My thoughts are with Sue and her family and friends at this time. I am simply one of her many online followers, contacts and admirers, but through t... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2012, 6:07 am
An 11-year-old girl left with severe brain injuries after mistakes by hospital staff at Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle has been awarded £5.6m compensation from the NHS.
The girl, whose identity is protected by a court order, suffered brain damage after delays at her birth.
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Jan 19, 2012, 8:21 pm
A letter to the Guardian from Jaspal Dhani, the Chair of the UKDPC, on the Spartacus Report and related issues. Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 4:19 am
.@legalaware An item about #easyJet & #disabled ppl can be found from 10 mins, 15 seconds at: South Today: 18/01/2012 bbc.in/x15oGf—
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Jan 19, 2012, 2:59 am
This is good news. What a shame they can’t teach EasyJet a thing or two! Comment - Like
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Jan 18, 2012, 11:13 am
Not another one!
A wheelchair user who was forced off an Easyjet plane at Gatwick because of safety fears has criticised the airline.
Martin Sabry, from Cambridge, who was paralysed from the chest down 17 years ago, was asked to leave the Montpelier-bound service by cabin staff.
The 39-year-old w... Comment - Like
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Jan 18, 2012, 9:02 am
Former councillor and disabled person Ollie Flitcroft writes at Comment Is Free about why he left the conservative party. Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 11:54 am
I have just received the press release below from Mencap.
Keen runners can take part in an exclusive marathon with a difference, to raise vital funds for learning disability charity Mencap.
Runners who have already tackled a marathon on dry land and are looking for their next challenge could at... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 7:05 am
Great. Now the BBC have come to the ‘Benefit Scrounging Scum’ party.
Bentleys, 42-foot yachts and restored farmhouses in France are not generally considered to be the hallmarks of life on benefits in Britain today.
Yet BBC Panorama has tracked down claimants leading double lives.
One man clai... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 6:57 am
Wheelchair users in Wales are still waiting too long for replacements and repairs, it is claimed.
Welsh Conservative health spokesman Darren Millar says despite a critical report 18 months ago the NHS in Wales was still letting patients down.
He says waiting times for upgrades and repairs have gro... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 6:44 am
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Nov 3, 2011, 6:30 am
Fifty years ago, the sedative Thalidomide was withdrawn after thousands of mothers gave birth to disabled babies. That ageing Thalidomide generation now faces rising care bills – but some hope a possible Nazi link to the drug could bring more compensation.
In November 1961, I was five months old.... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 6:18 am
... sponsorship of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
The announcement comes four months after celebrity chef Jamie Oliver said he would step down as the face of the supermarket after Christmas following an 11-year partnership.
Like Oliver, Beckham will appear in adverts for the company. The firs... Comment - Like
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