Without radical change, the cost of social care could soak up every penny of Barnet council’s budget within 20 years Let me to introduce you to the Barnet Graph of Doom . It’s a PowerPoint slide showing that within 20 years, unless things change dramatically, the north London council will be unable to provide any services except adult social care and children’s services

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Graph of Doom: a bleak future for social care services

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New documentary follows Tom Spicer as he leaves his Devon care home on a quest to meet Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich Tom Spicer is wearing a huge pair of headphones and an expression of mild anxiety. Backstage at the Honda Centre, Anaheim, California, at one of the world’s biggest rock gigs, Tom is about to find out whether he will fulfill his 15-year-dream to meet his idol, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.

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Mission to Lars: film follows learning disabled man’s dream

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Mobility scooters are big business – and they can transform the lives of people with disabilities. But their rising popularity in the UK is creating hostility, not least when able-bodied people use them as a cheap alternative to a car The TGA Supersport tends to be bought by people who were fond of motorbikes in their youth, and many of its owners know it affectionately as the Harley, because its high silver handlebars supported by chrome springs are immediately reminiscent of the brand. It’s a Hell’s Angels look for people with limited mobility

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The trouble with mobility scooters

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Unite is offering legal, debt and benefits advice for out of work people in their local communities to win new followers to its cause When a visitor enters the Casa Bar in central

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Brimstone and Treacle, Dennis Potter’s play featuring the rape of a disabled woman, caused a storm in the 1970s.

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Staging Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle for a modern audience

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When Rachel Cooke went to meet historian David Starkey, often called the rudest man in Britain, she expected it to be war. But that was before she started laughing at his tales of a first date in the Beaver’s Retreat In the afternoon of 3 June, the Queen will mark her diamond jubilee by sailing the Thames from Hammersmith to the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich aboard the royal barge, the Spirit of Chartwell

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David Starkey: ‘I can be a bit harsh’

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Removal of specialist support leaves those wrongly assessed vulnerable to poverty and homelessness, campaigners warn A woman with learning difficulties, severe epilepsy, schizophrenia, cerebral palsy and asthma recently underwent an official assessment of her fitness for work, which concluded that there was nothing preventing her from taking up employment.

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Legal aid bill puts thousands at risk, says Citizens Advice

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An eye disease left Wheatcroft blind at 18, but by memorising routes he runs unaided and even competes in ultramarathons. Mark Russell joins him for a run and hears his remarkable story The London Marathon will see tens of thousands of competitors take to the capital’s streets this weekend, but for some runners the prospect of covering 26.2 miles just isn’t enough and only an ultramarathon will satisfy their itchy feet.

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The blind ultramarathon runner who trains alone

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Paul Farmer says he has resigned to publicise his anger at an ‘inhumane system’ that is telling severely ill and disabled they are fit to work Here’s the moral dilemma that faced Paul Farmer, chief executive of the mental health charity Mind, last week: should he continue to sit on a government advisory panel, charged with scrutinising a policy that his charity believes to be inhumane? Or should he resign, publicising his anger at the coalition government’s refusal to listen to the charity’s concerns, and remove himself from the room where improvements are being discussed? Farmer chose to leave the panel responsible for monitoring the functioning of the work capability assessment (WCA), the new fitness-for-work test that determines who is eligible for sickness benefits, frustrated that the government was not paying attention to the growing chorus of alarm over the reliability of the test.

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Charity chief quits over fit-for-work test

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Despite the The Undateable’s sometimes patronising stance, there’s something truly impressive about the participants It would be naive to insist that love is blind. Just ask 37-year-old Richard, who is adamant that his dream woman is a blonde, or Penny, 23, who has a thing for towering policemen. Richard is an amateur radio buff who also has Asperger’s, while trainee teacher and circus performer Penny stands three feet tall.

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Just trash TV? No, there are beating hearts here | Hephzibah Anderson

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He may be the star of the new Snow White adaptation, but Povinelli’s dwarfism means he’s fighting for varied roles In his hotel room in New Orleans, Mark Povinelli is reflecting upon the sort of scripts he receives.

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Patrick Barkham meets Sam and Jolene, who are appearing in a documentary about a dating agency for people with disabilities On their first date at the zoo, Sam discovered that his wallet was empty and he couldn’t pay for Jolene’s drink. Then he fluffed their goodbyes a little by not suggesting what they both wanted – that they should meet again. But he made her laugh, a lot, with jokes about the lynx and the lions, and they both had a great time

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Going out on a date, complete with TV crew

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A computer questionnaire now helps determine who is fit for work and who is eligible for benefits. But it is causing misery, with thousands of unwell people locked in a chaotic system of appeals How sick or disabled do you need to be to qualify for state support? Is it enough to be blind or do you also need to be deaf?

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Sickness benefit: ‘They try their damnedest to avoid paying’

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A cheap place to live in return for free care and company: with homeshare, everybody wins.

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Homeshare: meet the unlikely housemates

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The mother of Erica, a severely disabled girl who has undergone a rare treatment to keep her small, speaks to Karen McVeigh • ‘Ashley treatment’ on the rise across Europe and US In the kitchen of her home, Erica’s mother bounces a baby boy – her grandchild – on her knee and smiles as she introduces her daughter, who is just home from school. Dressed in pink jeans, Erica sucks her thumb

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