Blue badge scheme ‘will keep focus on physical mobility’

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The government looks set to maintain the current focus of the blue badge parking scheme inEnglandon disabled people with significant physical mobility problems. The Department for Transport (DfT) proposals are contained in a new consultation on how eligibility for a … Continue reading

Traffic warden plasters 10 parking tickets on car parked in hospital’s disabled bay as driver was inside having emergency transplant surgery

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An ‘overzealous’ car park warden stuck ten parking tickets on a car parked in a hospital’s disabled bay as the owner was undergoing emergency surgery. The tickets were slapped all over the red Mini by the warden after the patient … Continue reading

Top TV reporter is told: You can’t fly on this plane, your Zimmer’s too wide

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Frank Gardner makes me bloody angry, complaining about disability discrimination, not being able to use his zimmer frame on a plane, well Mr.Gardner many of us have to put up with discrimination of one sort of another every bloody day. … Continue reading