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Disability Rights UK is looking for runners for the Great North Run. It takes place on the 9th September 2018 and it’s officially the world’s biggest half marathon! Disability Rights UK is now recruiting runners …

Nicki Donnelly (born November 1982) served as a West Midlands Police Officer for nearly ten years after her 18th birthday. She was training within the Specialised Firearms Department when she was involved in a road …

Jurys Inn, the hotel group, has announced a two year partnership with SCOPE charity to change attitudes towards disability in the workplace. As well as holding fundraising events at all of its hotels, the hotel group is …

“A very traditional play doesn’t suit everyone.” Josh Hepple is a law graduate with severe cerebral palsy who acts a disability campaigner at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. “But then how do you make someone care …

Kate Jennings I turned to blogging at the tender age of 35 after my kidneys went into failure and my job as an event officer was no longer manageable. After a a sufficient amount of …

An appeal from ‘Hyndburn Parents and Carers Group’ Play is an important part of any child’s childhood, so when we learned that there was currently a group of young people that were denied the opportunity …

After a near-death car accident last December, blind cook Penny Melville-Brown has emerged after weeks in a coma, months in intensive care and more time in specialist rehabilitation to walk, talk and think clearly enough …

What is a disability hate crime? Something is a disability hate incident if the victim or anyone else thinks it was carried out because of hostility or prejudice against disabled people. This means that if …

Billy Davis reports on how the Government should be listening to everyone – including those with learning difficulties. He writes, ” just because someone has a learning difficulty it doesn’t mean that they don’t have …

We recently posted an article titled ‘Fashion And The Disabled Girl‘ which has prompted many of our site visitors to tell us how little representation there is, in so many industries, of people with disabilities. …