Month: March 2014
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Travel & Holidays
Accessing New Zealand: part one
Have a disability? Well you’re about to be disproven by Jasmine, who has Friedreich’s Ataxia and has just come back…
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Assistive Tech & Products
Blingsticks: designer walking sticks
Blingsticks founder Dawn Banton discusses MS, setting up her own business, and how she’s made walking sticks sexy. Before I…
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Entertainment & Culture
Challenging impaired perceptions of disability
Do you have an impaired perception? I know what you’re thinking; that was a ridiculous opening sentence. How could this weird internet person…
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Entertainment & Culture
New multimedia play 21st Century Dinosaurs
New play 21st Century Dinosaurs, which looks at the attitudes towards visual impairments, is opening this coming week and we’re…
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Wellbeing & Fitness
Q&A with Paralympian Anna Turney
The Winter Paralympics is over for another year. So as the curtain closes on Sochi 2014, we speak to Paralympian…
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Wellbeing & Fitness
Winter Paralympics 2014: the story so far…
Back in 2012 the world was griped by the London Paralympic Games, and Team GB didn’t disappoint us Brits. But…
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Entertainment & Culture
DH in the Pub: come and join us…
Who doesn’t love putting the world to rights, particularly when it comes to disability rights, with your mates down the…
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Lifestyle
Q&A with Ashley Thomson: one-handed hairdresser
When you have a disability, such as only having one hand, there are certain jobs some might imagine you can’t…
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Travel & Holidays
Guide to accessible holidays in Spain part two: Malaga City
Part two of Louise Brace’s rough guide to disabled holidays in Spain, brings us to Malaga city, underrated and sadly…
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News
Is disability a political issue?
Next year, in fact in fourteen months time, there will be a general election. In the build-up, the lobbying and…
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