Daily Archives: 25/06/2012

Birthday honours: Campaigners win recognition

25/06/2012 – 1:10 pm

Disabled campaigners mentioned in the Queen’s birthday honours have spoken of their shock at having their work recognised.
George Glass is to receive an MBE, after years of campaigning for the rights of blind and partially-sighted people in Stockton-on-Tees.
He lived as a “recluse” for 30 years after becoming blind in his 20s but decided to “return [...]

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Sir Bert warns of threat to accessible transport if DPTAC is scrapped

25/06/2012 – 12:44 pm

One of the original architects of a pioneering government advice body has warned that coalition plans to scrap it would see accessible transport “disappear off the agenda”.
Sir Bert Massie drafted the amendment to the transport bill in 1984 that led to the setting up of a statutory Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC), and was [...]

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