I have found a new hero. John Callahan is someone to admire and revere. I have only just been introduced to his work, through the film ‘Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot’, which was sent to me by my friend Ted Eames. After sharing this with my followers on Facebook, another of my good […]
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The following article has been written by John Pring and appears on his excellent Disability News Service website which can be found by clicking on this link. *** The Labour party is on a “collision course” with the equality and human rights watchdog and the United Nations because of its failure to accept the need
I received the following email to inform me that the Petitions Committee at the Senedd will be discussing my petition to Save the Welsh Independent Living Grant on Tuesday 17th September at 9.00. This may be one of the final times that the petition is considered by the committee in question, considering how far we
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I am up to my neck in negotiations with my local authority over emergency payments for my depleted Direct Payments account. It has taken a beating over the past six months, as I have been using it to fund the 24/7 support that I so desperately need. I had saved quite a sum to be
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqo50LGQd_8 This is a brilliant song. It was in my head at the weekend after I watched TOTP 1988. However, as with a number of songs recently, I have been unable to hear and appreciate the actual tune now that I listen to it again. It seems that as Friedreich’s Ataxia eats away at my
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The following article appears on the DPAC website, was written by Mark Dunk and Paula Peters and can be viewed here. *** Boris Johnson’s hubris and scheming in his attempt to bounce the country into leaving the EU with no-deal has brought about the prospect of an early General election. While many are wary of
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The following article was taken from the Daily Star newspaper and can be read in full by following this link. I feel the pain of Alex Squires, as described in the article below, only to well. However, I do not believe that escorts should offer discounts to disabled people. Instead, I think it is the
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I must begin by apologising for not updating my followers for a few weeks. I have been in battle – mode against my local authority who seem determined not to increase my package of social care, unless I undertake a health assessment that everyone can clearly see I don’t need. This has caused several sleepless
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Even though events in February suggested that we had been successful in our attempts to #SaveWILG, I am still struggling to live a comfortable, independent life. The problem is that Wrexham County Borough Council are simply incompetent, and failing in their duty of care towards me. This has recently been highlighted by the fact that
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It has been a while since I last wrote a Memory Match column. I spent 2015-2018 writing these articles for the Wrexham AFC matchday programme when we were proud to be a community club. Unfortunately, the club’s treatment of disabled supporters is nothing short of a disgrace, while the treatment of the proactive Disabled Supporters Association leaves
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