Ten years in a wheelchair won’t stop Stockport man taking on treadmill charity challenge to walk unaided
The 64-year-old lost his mobility in a sickening attack that left him paralysed and unable to move a decade ago.
The other V festival! Manchester VegFest sow seeds for disabled plot at Crumpsall Allotments
All things green and beautiful will be celebrated this weekend as vegetables great and small take centre stage at VegFest, while raising money for disabled facilities.
Manchester gay club in online row as transgender reveller claims he was ejected ‘for being autistic’
Bouncers at Princess Street’s Alter Ego are also alleged to have ‘misgendered’ the man after he was repeatedly called ‘she’ despite protests at the incident, which happened around 2am.
Top run: Manchester’s Sportcity hosts UK athletes for national learning disability championships
Nearly 100 athletes with learning disabilities from across the UK descended on Manchester’s Sportcity over the weekend to take part in the Open National Athletics Championships.
Dukinfield ex-nurse raises £25,000 for op so daughter can WALK for first time – but NHS turn her down
A Dukinfield ex-nurse who raised £25,000 for a hospital operation to enable her disabled daughter to walk has been told she cannot have the surgery after all.
People in Manchester more likely to live with disability or illness, shock stats reveal
A report released by the Office for National Statistics today ranks Manchester near bottom of the disability-free life expectancy tables, meaning they are also likely to die sooner.
Tameside ex-nurse brands NHS ‘ridiculous’ for refusing to fund op so daughter can ‘walk like all her friends’
A former Tameside nurse has condemned the NHS for refusing to fund a £25,000 operation which will enable her two-year-old child to walk for the first time.
‘We love, hurt and feel just like everyone’: Autistic Manchester woman battles for better female diagnosis
More than 700,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder – yet women across the country suffer in silence with the condition every day
Brittle Bone Disease sufferer reveals how children’s charity brought her ‘out of shadows’ at Manchester Hilton event
Variety, the Children’s Society launched in the UK in 1949, and has raised more than £270million for disabled children
Supersize Manchester disability show to offer ‘inclusion, independence and choice’ to North West
The Inclusion, Independence and Choice Show is at Manchester Central
Protests over disability course closure force Manchester University to relocate launch event amid security fears
Protesters oppose the university’s decision to cut Learning Disability course