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Disabled polling plan first in UK

The Electoral Office in Northern Ireland is planning to make it easier for disabled people to vote. It is launching a consultation process on Friday and wants to hear from anyone who had trouble using their polling station.

22 Apr 2008
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Disabled man attacks scooter ban

A disabled man has complained he is being discriminated against because he is not allowed to take his motorised scooter on to a bus. Bill Pearsall, of Woodside, Shropshire, has been unable to catch the No. 44 Arriva bus into Telford.

22 Apr 2008
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City centre Remploy aids hundreds

A Coventry branch of a provider of employment services for disabled people has got more than 400 people into work in its first 11 months. Remploy's city centre branch, which is on Trinity Street, provides specialist services for disabled people and "those with complex needs".

22 Apr 2008
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Justice system 'fails' sex victim

A woman with a learning disability who was sexually assaulted has been denied justice because she was not judged a reliable witness, a report has said. The Mental Welfare Commission investigated the case of the 67-year-old woman known as "Miss A".

22 Apr 2008
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Bald teacher loses disabled claim

A retired schoolteacher who claimed he was a victim of disability discrimination because he is bald has lost his claim. James Campbell, 61, formerly an art teacher at Denny High School in Stirlingshire, took Falkirk Council to an employment tribunal over the issue. He told the Glasgow tribunal he had suffered from harassment at the hands of pupils because of his baldness.

22 Apr 2008
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Policewoman jailed over shooting

A policewoman who admitted trying to kill her former lover when she shot him with her police issue handgun has been jailed for 12 years. Diane Northcott, 41, pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Sergeant Laurence Smyth inside a police station in Newtownabbey in September 2006.

22 Apr 2008
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