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Audi apologies after turning away disabled driver
Audi mistakenly claimed its new sales order system meant it could no longer take sales orders from disabled customers I’m a paraplegic and, when buying a new car, am entitled to have the vehicle VAT exempt because it has to be adapted for me to drive. We live in a rural location with a young family and no public transport, and are totally dependent on a car. I currently have an Audi on a three-year contract with Audi Finance
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Audi apologies after turning away disabled driver
It saddens me to see young, vulnerable people having their lives made harder | Peter Halstead
As a teacher of young people with learning difficulties, I believe it’s a matter of conscience that their needs – and rights – are met Since graduating from university, I have worked in a further education college in inner London teaching students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities aged between 16 and 21.
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It saddens me to see young, vulnerable people having their lives made harder | Peter Halstead
Welfare reform bill faces Lords rebellion
Government proposals to cut spending on working-age disability living allowance criticised in House of Lords The government faces another rebellion over its controversial welfare reform bill after opponents tabled an amendment threatening to once again split support in the House of Lords. Opening a new front against the government plans, Baroness Grey-Thompson, one of the most successful disabled athletes in the UK and a TV sports presenter, will seek to amend parts of the bill with provisions that mean that there would have to be a pilot scheme before a tough new assessment regime for disability living allowance is introduced.
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Assisted dying: we need a more humane law | Charles Falconer
The law on assisted suicide is incoherent for both those with a terminal illness and their loved ones The Commission on Assisted Dying, which I chair, on Thursday identifies a possible legal framework for the issue . It is a very British approach to legal change – limited, and subject to stringent safeguards – but a significant step that we believe would make the process of dying more humane, both for people who want some degree of control in their final illness, and their loved ones who are left behind. Our framework proposes that a person who has an illness from which two doctors consider he or she will die within 12 months, could receive assistance from their doctor to end their life if certain stringent safeguards were met, without the assister committing a crime
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Assisted dying: we need a more humane law | Charles Falconer
Global development voices: Living with disabilities
There are estimated to be 1 billion disabled people across the world.
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Global development voices: Living with disabilities
Bendy buses were a godsend to us strugglers | Peter Preston
The end of the bendy bus in London is a blow to the lame, arthritic downstairs lot. Does Boris Johnson think about us? There are more squeezed middles than Ed Miliband dreams of, more in-betweeners, more of us who are not-quite-this-and-not-quite-that, neither able nor disabled, just people struggling on
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Bendy buses were a godsend to us strugglers | Peter Preston
