Daily Archives: 21/05/2011

Scottish parliament welcomes first blind MSP

21/05/2011 – 9:00 am

Former social worker Dennis Robertson has become the first blind person to be elected to the Scottish parliament since it sat for the first time in 1999.
Robertson, who represents Aberdeenshire West for the SNP, is a former pupil of Edinburgh’s Royal Blind School. He has worked for the charity Guide Dogs and is a guide [...]

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Paralympic prices revealed, but confusion remains on free PA tickets

21/05/2011 – 9:00 am

More than half of the tickets for the 2012 Paralympics in London will be priced at £10 or under, organisers of the games have announced.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) said that two million tickets would go on sale from 9 September 2011.
Tickets for those under 16 or over [...]

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