Workers fighting the closure of a factory in North Yorkshire which employs disabled people are holding 24-hour vigil outside York Minster. The Remploy plant is due to shut on Thursday. Twenty-eight sites across the UK, including five others in Yorkshire, are also being closed. Remploy wants to place more disabled people into mainstream employment rather than in sheltered workshops.
A former scaffolder left severely disabled after a crash more than five years ago has been awarded £3m in damages at the High Court in London. Neil Nicolson, from Corpach, Fort William, was on a motorcycle when he was involved in a collision with a car.
Television can play a pivotal role in the lives of millions of people with sight problems, according to the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Research suggests that most of the 2m people with sight problems in Britain spend time watching television for relaxation and entertainment.
Older men with lower levels of the male sex hormone testosterone in their blood may be more prone to depression, a study suggests. A study of about 4,000 men aged over 70 found those with lowest testosterone were three times more likely to be depressed than those with the most.
A man has appeared in court over an attack which left a physically disabled Belfast man fighting for his life.
Researchers say they have made the most significant breakthrough for 15 years in the quest to understand the fatal condition Motor Neurone Disease (MND). A team says a mutated gene is behind one form of the disease - and can be used to understand it better.
