Work has started to build a £1.9m arts centre in Bradford for young actors with disabilities. Theatre company Mind the Gap is working with Bradford Council to set up its new headquarters in part of Listers Mill, which is currently being regenerated. Formed in 1988, Mind the Gap is one of the UK's leading theatre companies for learning-disabled actors. The Arts Council donated £1.25m towards the cost of the centre, which is expected to open in July.
Families with disabled children in Nottingham are getting more support with more than £7m of government cash. The money will be used over the next three years to provide short holidays for the youngsters - also giving their parents or carers a valuable break. It also means community-based services can be implemented more quickly.
We are entering a new era for public sector reform. Labour's approach - more money and more central control - has reached its limits. 10 years of investment have helped improve our NHS from the desperate state of 1997, after decades of Conservative neglect, but it still isn't good enough.
Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg today outlined his vision for the NHS, setting out plans to give communities genuine control over local health services, freed from Whitehall, and providing for older people with personal care needs.
Brent Martin was, according to his family and friends, a caring and trusting man. Even when the 23-year-old - who had learning difficulties - was being subjected to an onslaught of violence, Newcastle Crown Court was told he did not lift an aggressive finger to his attackers.
A ruling not to disqualify a man caught drink driving after an emergency call to help his disabled father, has been quashed by the Court of Appeal.
