Daily Archives: 08/08/2011

The ‘Hardest Hit’ are set to protest across the UK

08/08/2011 – 9:00 am

Disabled people across the UK are being urged to take part in a series of protests across the country against cuts to services and benefits.
The local and regional protests will take place this autumn as a follow-up to May’s hugely successful national Hardest Hit protest in London.
The UK Disabled People’s Council (UKDPC) is again working [...]

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Silent threat of electric vehicles ‘must be curbed’

08/08/2011 – 9:00 am

Car manufacturers must be forced to adapt their near-silent electric vehicles so they no longer pose such a serious threat to the safety of blind pedestrians, say campaigners.
A new report for the government downplays the risk caused by quiet electric and hybrid vehicles to the safety of partially-sighted and blind pedestrians.
But blind and partially-sighted people [...]

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