Daily Archives: 08/11/2010

BBC rapped over Clarkson’s disablist comment

08/11/2010 – 11:19 am

The BBC has been criticised by the communications watchdog over a programme in which presenter Jeremy Clarkson made offensive, disablist comments about people with learning difficulties.
Clarkson told viewers of the popular BBC2 motoring show Top Gear that the Ferrari F430 Especial should instead have been called the “430 Speciale Needs” because its “smiling front end” [...]

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Forced marriage information ‘will bring new cases to light’

08/11/2010 – 10:43 am

Scores of people with learning difficulties are being forced into marriages against their will every year, government figures have revealed.
Last year, 35 people with learning difficulties, as well as 14 disabled people with physical impairments, contacted a government helpline set up to deal with the problem of forced marriages.
But the figures under-estimate the true scale [...]

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