Attempt to resist order that they should face same reforms as other public sector workers risks backlash … Continue reading
Disability issues in the news from the Black Triangle.
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North Wales Disabled Shopper in Parking Row
A DISABLED shopper who parked in a family parking space found a note on her windscreen saying “Disabled people are
Tax haven abuse costs the UK government £16 billion per year
A report calling for the Government to put a stop to tax haven abuse and save the UK economy £18
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Government claims minor rise in households suffering hardship because of fuel prices – but situation said to be much worse … Continue reading
Cancer has shown me the injustice of disability cuts
My diagnosis means I have experience of the terrible impact of welfare cuts. I will use my time left to
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Middle classes are Britain’s new homeless: State safety nets are gone
As the downturn bites, the numbers turning to local authorities for housing are rising. But there is little help to
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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown could be called to give evidence on relationship with media barons … Continue reading
Scotland Yard chief urged to quit after select committee greets his account of failed initial inquiry with laughter … Continue reading
David Cameron backs Labour motion urging Murdoch to withdraw £8bn takeover bid in wake of phone-hacking scandal … Continue reading
The NHS is desperate to cut beds and the time people stay in them. But many frail old patients must remain on the wards because there is no suitable care for them at home. In the second of three reports from Birmingham’s busy Heartlands hospital, Amelia Gentleman spends a day in the packed elderly care unit … Continue reading
The chief executive of disability charity Scope tells Amelia Gentleman that the government’s not listening
Disability charities tell government that new medical test to assess eligibility for benefit will lead to vulnerable claimants losing out
Click here to read our interview with Scope’s Richard Hawkes … Continue reading
Phone hacking: David Cameron is not out of the sewer yet
Poor judgment lies at the heart of Prime Minister David Cameron’s crisis over the Murdoch empire. For more than three
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Cameron on employing Coulson
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Suicide rates rise as debt and cuts take their toll
Suicide rates have risen sharply across Europe since the banking crisis as people struggle to cope with debt, unemployment and
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Nazis’ disabled victims honoured
The UK’s first memorial to the one million disabled people who were persecuted, sterilised or killed by Nazi Germany has
Politicians and interviewers are locked in a pantomime. For sanity’s sake, we must intervene … Continue reading
Jon Snow: After half a century, a forgotten scourge is back
The housing charity Shelter estimates that there is a shortage of a million homes in the UK He was the
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Strikes: Author Michael Rosen attacks government and backs workers
Former Children’s Laureate and occasional teacher Michael Rosen manned a picket line on Thursday and explained why he backed the
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Liam Byrne insists leaked letter from Eric Pickles office shows ministers ‘haven’t been straight with the House of Commons’ … Continue reading