Campaign targets potential voters
People with disabilities and migrant workers are being asked to make sure they are on Northern Ireland's electoral register.
1 Oct 2007
People with disabilities and migrant workers are being asked to make sure they are on Northern Ireland's electoral register.
A new single equality body for England, Wales and Scotland comes into effect on 1 October, replacing three long-standing commissions. The Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will look after age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation. The new organisation will also have a duty to promote and uphold the Human Rights Act.Its chair is Trevor Phillips from the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE).
A new service has begun to help people with mobility problems visit one Leicester library.
A care provider has been fined £15,000 for breaking health and safety laws following the death of a disabled woman who had been left alone in a bath. Lilia Korzun, 48, who needed 24-hour care, died at a sheltered bungalow in Wednesbury, West Midlands, in 2004.
It was once known as the Sacred Disease. Its sufferers were revered and stigmatised in equal measure for their supposedly divinely ordained condition. Julius Caesar, Peter the Great, and Byron are just a few of the best known historical figures to have had epilepsy.
Carers will be able to earn more money without losing their benefits, Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain has announced.