All news on the topic: Disability rights

A Blue Badge helps those with physical disabilities or health conditions park closer to where they need to go, such as shopping centres and supermarkets, and they can be used abroad

There's always one busybody looking to jump in and pull up someone for using an area they are perfectly entitled to, before realising they've opened their mouth too soon and made a fool of themselves

Paralympian Ellie Challis and dad Paul were left with no option but to make the four-hour, 200-mile journey home from east London to Manchester in the early hours of the morning

Sara, a disabled woman in West London, who says she struggles to clean herself after the toilet and can’t use her shower, accuses the housing association which owns her flat of “gaslighting” her

DJ Calvert, 49, from Londonderry. relies on daily visits from a care worker to help him with basic personal care - but is being withdrawn due to services being "increasingly stretched in ever more demanding circumstances"