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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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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Disability living allowance is being replaced with personal independence payment assessments, and private companies are queueing up to cash in The Department for Work and Pensions has just announced the 10 private companies on the shortlist to deliver the personal independence payment (PIP) assessments, which everyone receiving disability living allowance will have to undergo from next year when DLA is replaced by PIPs. With 3.2 million captive customers, not to mention a monopoly on all new claimants, it’s not hard to see the appeal of the contract for profit-hungry companies untroubled by the ethics of slashing 20% from the money provided to disabled people to help them meet some of the basic expenses that living with a disability inevitably incurs. DLA is far from excessive.

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Disability living allowance is being replaced with personal independence payment assessments, and private companies are queueing up to cash in The Department for Work and Pensions has just announced the 10 private companies on the shortlist to deliver the personal independence payment (PIP) assessments, which everyone receiving disability living allowance will have to undergo from next year when DLA is replaced by PIPs.

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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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TV show adverts prompted 21 complaints that they offended disabled people and encouraged bullying and stereotyping Channel 4′s ad campaign for controversial show The Undateables has been cleared by the advertising watchdog, despite more than 20 complaints that it is offensive toward disabled people and encourages sterotyping and bullying. The ad campaign for the show, which has been a hit for Channel 4 attracting almost 3 million viewers , featured photographs of people from the programme with the advertising strapline “Love is blind, disfigured, autistic … “.

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Geoff Holt was prevented from boarding a train by a guard who told him that his electric wheelchair would damage the floor The first quadriplegic sailor to cross the Atlantic solo has described his anger at being prevented from boarding a train by a guard who told him that his electric wheelchair would damage the floor. Geoff Holt, 45, told how he was left with “a sense of genuine rage” following the incident on the platform beside an Isle of Wight train, where he said that the guard suggested that he was a liar and cut his leg when he eventually threw down a ramp for him to board. The unnamed guard has now been suspended pending an investigation into the incident involving the Island Line’s three-minute Ryde Pier to Ryde Esplanade service, according to its operators Stagecoach Group .

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He helped learning-disabled people to live in the community Amid rising concern over cuts to UK health and social care services, it is often forgotten that the lives of most people with learning disabilities have improved immeasurably over the past 30 years.

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In an exclusive email exchange, Ashley’s father talks to Ed Pilkington about his daughter’s condition, her growth attenuation treatment – and the criticism his family has faced Towards the end of 2006 an endocrinologist in Seattle called Dr Daniel Gunther published an article in the Archives of Pediatrics in which he described a series of medical interventions he had given to a severely disabled child called Ashley. Together with Ashley’s parents, he devised a course of therapy designed to keep the child permanently small

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The founders of an online lifestyle magazine for disabled people on why there’s a need for a feelgood factor A broad smile spreads across the faces of Martyn Sibley and Srin Madipalli when asked where they were when they decided to launch an online lifestyle magazine for disabled people. “On the beach,” they respond in tandem

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Take me there: Camber Sands To call Camber Sands Britain’s answer to the Hamptons is perhaps an overstatement (it’s got a Pontins for a start), but there’s definitely something a bit Long Island about the new wave of holiday houses popping up behind the dunes of this Sussex beach. The newest addition is Sea Gem, a gorgeous architect-designed house, all clean lines, glass walls, decking and sea breezes

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As Rathband, the victim of Raoul Moat’s savage act, found: there is no toolkit for dealing with sudden blindness As I made to leave Winchester station morning, I took a wrong turning and found myself heading for an internal staircase rather than the exit I’d intended. It annoyed me. Why hadn’t I been warned

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Conference in March will beat the drum for an energetic, pro-active approach to encourage disabled people to enjoy town centre life to the full Bolton’s I’m Not Laughing campaign against disability ‘hate crime’, which attracted a lot of attention when the Guardian Northerner featured it last year , is spreading its wings. The campaign launch, which was the subject of our post, was followed up efficiently on the ground, winning support from venues all over the town.

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Campaigners fear that scrapping legal aid for clinical blunders will mean future victims will not have access to a reasonable life that compensation can buy Like many boys on the cusp of adolescence, Theodore is thinking about beer and fast cars. Top of his wish list is an orange Lamborghini, but for now he may have to settle for a high-speed wheelchair

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