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| One Sam and his dog win friends for life at DFS Crufts |
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The British public has voted assistance dog Josie and his eight year old owner, Sam Daly, as the champions of ultimate dog heroes competition at DFS Crufts, Friends for Life.
The proud winners, from Eton in Berkshire, were presented with their trophy in the main Arena, at the Birmingham NEC tonight (Sunday 11th March).
The public have been voting all week for the story that moved them the most and decided that Sam and Josie were the most deserving pair. Sam is a wheelchair user with muscular dystrophy who says that "things were rubbish before she came to love me."
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| DisabledGo Launches 'new look' website |
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As you may have seen www.disabledgo.com has a brand new look.
As an organisation we want to make sure our website and our information is as useful and as easy to use as possible. Over the last few months you have been feeding back your ideas of what we could improve and our new look is the result!
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| Mobility Roadshow Helps you Take Control |
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The Department for Transport is considering plans for mobility scooter owners to prove they are fit to drive, reflecting the reported increasing number of incidents and near-misses by people not in control of their mobility scooters.
"This can be because they did not have the opportunity to test drive their vehicles in a 'real' environment", says Jacqui Jones, executive director of Mobility Choice, the charity that organises the annual Mobility Roadshow.
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| Our Access Guide goes 'live' in Thurrock |
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A unique on-line access guide that is designed to empower Thurrock's disabled residents to get out and do what they want to do, has officially gone 'live' in the area.
Thurrock Council has worked with DisabledGo and hundreds of shops, pubs, restaurants, theatres and other public venues to help create DisabledGo – Thurrock, which details how accessible a specific venue is.
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| Trailblazers to probe jobs market |
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A group of young disabled campaigners are embarking on an undercover investigation that is set to expose the discrimination they face in the job market.
More than 200 members of the Trailblazers network, run by the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign (MDC), will survey job centres and recruitment agencies, and report on their own experiences in the job market.
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| Well, that's all from us this month. See you in May! |
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DisabledGo-Isle of Man Steering Group
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Woodland Trust
Do you love spending time in woods and on the internet? VisitWoods needs you!
The Woodland Trust is looking for volunteers across England to help create VisitWoods, an exciting new project which will inspire more people to visit woods for leisure and health. |
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DisabledGo is launching a new competition on our community forum.
Simply give us your views and opinions and you could win the opportunity to feature on the DisabledGo website and bag yourself £50.00 in the process.
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