Daily Archives: 13/02/2011

Failure to close roads forces athletes to pull out of marathon

13/02/2011 – 11:19 am

Two of Britain’s leading Paralympic athletes were forced to pull out of the world championships wheelchair marathon because the organisers had failed to close the course to traffic.
David Weir – who had already won three gold medals during the IPC Athletics World Championships – and fellow British athlete Shelly Woods withdrew on the morning of [...]

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Government to review impact of housing benefit cuts

13/02/2011 – 11:13 am

Campaigners and MPs have welcomed the government’s decision to commission an independent review of the impact of controversial cuts and reforms to housing benefits on disabled people and other minority groups.
Lord Freud, the minister for welfare reform, made a “firm commitment” to commission independent research into the impact of the reforms.
He said the research would [...]

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