I can’t believe we are already in the last month of 2020. The year has just flown by, probably due to the fact that nobody has had anything to look forward to except further frustration. Unbelievably, I am in the same situation that I was this time last year, and the year before that, and […]
Brussels, 3 December – To mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the European Network on Independent Living – ENIL calls on Governments to stop delaying deinstitutionalisation reforms and start providing opportunities for independent living and being included in the community for all disabled people, as a matter of priority. Public funds, especially those coming
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PRESS RELEASE: 76% of Disabled People Surveyed ARE NOT CONFIDENT THAT THEIR RIGHTS WILL IMPROVE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. Research from Disability Wales has shown that 76% of disabled people surveyed are not confident that their rights will improve over the next five years. The same survey showed that 68% of disabled people did
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THURSDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2020 7 – 9pm Facebook Live with British Sign Language and live captions On International Day of Disabled People, DPAC and the Peoples Assembly Against Austerity will be co-hosting an extended evening of politics, conversation, music and comedy to celebrate Deaf and disabled people’s resistance from austerity and welfare reform to Covid-19
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I am not liking this new WordPress design that is highlighted in the YouTube video below. You won’t even realise that there has been a change, but the editor in which writers create posts, has been radically updated for the worse. Why do companies have to change things, just for the hell of it? The
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The following article is from BBC Sport online and can be viewed in its original form by clicking here. It really is quite unbelievable that two Hollywood superstars want to invest their money into Wrexham AFC and turn them into a “global force”. I should be really excited as a lifelong supporter of the club.
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“Welsh Labour Grassroots condemns the suspension from party membership of Jeremy Corbyn and the removal of the whip from him. In our view, Jeremy’s statement on the EHRC report, which apparently prompted this decision, contains nothing that would justify such action. As always, he was unequivocal about the unacceptability of antisemitic views and behaviour and
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This 1983/84 football season is carrying on regardless of whatever chaos is ruling my life. Therefore, instead of following the season date by date in a religious manner, I will just write the occasional feature, such as the one below on a small selection of Gillingham programmes. Mark Dunk is a political activist that I
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For International Ataxia Awareness Day, I have decided to include a section from Every Silver Lining has a Cloud, focusing on the day I was diagnosed with Friedreich’s Ataxia back in January 1993, at the age of 15. *** I staggered across a hectic car park, underneath threatening grey clouds, towards my date with destiny. Proud
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I have copied below, an article from BBC Sport about the proposed takeover of Wrexham AFC, by Hollywood superstars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. This is surreal news, and it is difficult to comprehend that this is happening to the club I have followed since 1985. There are still many hoops for the prospective new
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