This is a article from the South Wales Argus about a video conference that I took part in last week, along with my good friend and comrade Chris Hall. It was a important consultation with the Senedd Health and Social Care Committee about the future of independent living and how it will be funded. The […]
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The time has come to try to make a real difference to the lives of disabled people across Wales. I have been tirelessly trying to do this since I launched my #SaveWILG campaign back in November 2016 . This campaign was a relative success, but it appears that the Welsh Independent Living Grant (WILG) has
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I have copied and pasted the following article from the BBC News website, as it highlights an important issue facing disabled people across Wales. You can access the original article by clicking here. I am facing similar challenges, as even though I have been lucky enough to access a wheelchair through the NHS, I feel
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The following blog has been written and published by John Pring on the excellent Disability News Service website. The amount of support that I have received is overwhelming and I really appreciate all the solidarity shown. I have just been contacted by John Pring who said that the BBC are now interested in covering the
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I am writing the following blog in a very careful manner. I just want to relay the facts and the injustice, as I see it, being served to me by the Adult Social Care department at Wrexham County Borough Council (WCBC). In 2022, I expressed an interest in taking a short break to Florida. This
This time of year is always exciting as we are on the precipice of a fresh new year bursting with new opportunities to rectify the wrongs of the previous 12 months. It is always important to use the no man’s land that exists between Xmas and New Year to plan ahead while the majority of
Over the coming weeks, I will be adding a match programme for each of the games that I have focused on in Dirty Old Town. This is the programme from the League Two match against Cheltenham Town at the Racecourse on 10/09/05. Wrexham won the game 2-0. Wrexham had to postpone the previous match against
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Over the coming weeks, I will be adding a match programme for each of the games that I have focused on in Dirty Old Town. This is the programme from the Nationwide League Division Two match against Macclesfield Town at the Racecourse on 05-09-98 . The game ended 2-1 to Wrexham. After the embarrassment of
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As part of my role as Scottish correspondent for Groundtastic magazine I wrote a number of club articles dedicated to a particular stadium. I hugely enjoyed visiting new towns and cities to unearth some architectural gems of the football world. As a roving reporter I visited Caledonian Stadium, Firs Park, Victoria Park, Borough Briggs, and completed
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Unbelievably, I am writing an update for the #SaveWILG campaign – something that I have been working on since November 2016. After highlighting the campaign on national television, newspapers, radio and across social media, I was delighted when the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services visited my comrades and I back in February 2019,
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