All news on the topic: Disability

A blind contestant won a huge sum of money on Michael McIntyre's gameshow The Wheel, leaving fans elated at the result

Dr Amy Kavanagh opens up about life as a mum with a visual impairment and the obstacles she faces daily - from reading her initial pregnancy test results to attending regular baby health checks

Jodey Whiting died in February 2017 after her disability benefit was stopped. Her mother Joy Dove took her fight for a new inquest to the Court of Appeal - and it has now been granted

Jonathan Pinney, 38, is accused of attempting to chuck his wife into Boston’s Fort Port Channel on Wednesday afternoon because he thought she was an 'imposter'

Lauren Parkes, who suffers from Crohn's disease, had been enjoying a night out at The Hangar, in Wolverhampton, when she went to pop to the toilet but a bouncer stopped her using the disabled loos

Artificial Intelligence bot GPT-4 has managed to beat a CAPTCHA test, which are designed to detect if a user is human, by pretending to be a blind person and asking for help

Mercyhurst University ice hockey student Carson Briere has been slammed after he was caught launching a wheelchair down stairs at Sullivan's Pub and Eatery in Erie, Pennsylvania, US

Iain Buers, 55, says he won't be able to afford to visit six-year-old seriously ill granddaughter Charlotte in hospital when the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is expanded in August

Sas Granville is a Myth Buster for learning disability charity Mencap – and is working to challenge peoples' perceptions when it comes to people with a disability and sports

There has been some lovely visible success for Disabled people in TV and film recently. Elsewhere, everything else is, as ever, still an unholy mess

The Chancellor shared his "Back to Work" plan in the Spring Budget today announcing that the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) for benefits will be scrapped

Having a disability can make navigating the world trickier than for non-disabled people, including dating. Lily Azeez shared how she faced discrimination on dates until she met the love of her life

Lockdowns are still viewed as the worst thing that happened in during the pandemic - when it should be the travesty of how many disabled people were allowed to perish

Alice Palmer, 68, was a lifetime carer to daughter Beth, 20, who suffered with cerebral palsy, scoliosis, blindness, and epilepsy. Sadly she died at a young age, and then Alice's husband, John, passed away too

Caitlin Jensen, 29, suffered four ruptured arteries which led to heart attacks and strokes after a routine chiropractor appointment on June 16, 2022, in Georgia, US

Laura Wilson has been using a wheelchair full-time after her mobility was affected due to a neurological condition, and now feels she's being "held prisoner" in her own home

A blind mum of two in Liverpool said she is terrified of the mice she can hear running around her home. Emma Rankin said her carers started noticing bite marks in her food along with mouse droppings

There is such deep rooted systemic inequality when it comes to how Disabled people are treated in this country that this is not news to Disabled people. And it is forgettable or ignorable news to most non-disabled people

This week’s shocker (not actually a shocker) for Disabled people was news of a jolly little chat between then Health Secretary Matt Hancock and aide Allan Nixon

Blue Peter's new presenter Abby Cook studied applied biological science at Forth Valley College; works to support disabled and non-disabled young people becoming active and trains twice a week with Paralympians, among other achievements

BP chief executive Bernard Looney could be in line for a fat paypacket but the End Fuel Poverty Coalition slammed the 'champagne lifestyle for energy bosses' while struggling Brits suffer in 'cold, damp homes'

Disabled Britain guest editor and columnist for the Mirror, Rachel Charlton-Dailey, asks where are the different types of disabled women to be trotted out by corporations for International Women's Day - and not just one well-off white woman in a wheelchair?

Auriol Grey, 49, was jailed for three years last week after being convicted of the manslaughter of cyclist Celia Ward, 77, who fell off her bike onto a busy road during a confrontation

Auriol Grey, 49, was estranged from her family and is said to only have one friend having struggled through life with health problems and limited financial means

Anna Morell, who works for Disability Rights UK, explains how changes to benefits and benefit systems since 2008 have meant that Disabled people have lost payments of around £1,200 on average each year