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I'd rather we sold the current squad and plummeted back down the leagues than sign that petition.

In the case of most bus companies, it is company policy. The case was brought by an aggrieved wheelchair user who was complaining that the bus company's failure to enforce its own policy was a breach of the law. The court found that this was, indeed, the case.

The "other person" (ie the baby buggy user) isn't the person to whom the law applies. The law applies to the service provider, the bus company. It is for them to come up with an arrangement that gives a wheelchair user access to the bus, if no other wheelchair user is already on the bus.

The bus company's defence was that it isn't practical for the operator to get a baby buggy moved elsewhere on the bus, if a wheelchair user turns up and requires the use of the wheelchair space. Had the wheelchair space been occupied by a wheelchair, it would have been reasonable for the bus...

It's more complicated than that. The legal obligation that bus and train operators have to comply with is not quite the same as the obligation that applies to most service providers under the DDA (now the Equality Act) . Most service providers have to make "reasonable adjustments" to ensure...

You gave an example where one person said he wasn't offended. And I'm not challenging that. My view that "most" disabled people object to the term "wheelchair bound" is based on years of experience of working with a very large number of wheelchair users and other people with other...

Yes. No.

I'm not putting myself forward as a spokesperson for other people. I'm speaking as someone who has worked for thirty years as a provider of transport services for people with disabilities, bringing me into daily contact with a wide variety of transport service users. My work included a three...

The response of SASTA to the OP seems to accept that a refund might be made BY SOUTHERN, if the value of the concession can be identified. It has been ... £4. I can't see any reason not to pursue Southern for this. They've offered something. Take it. But don't ask the Club to pay anything.

No, I don't know anything about your circumstances, nor those of your family or friends. But what I do know is that most wheelchair users find the term "wheelchair bound" offensive. A wheelchair is a mode of transport that liberates people. It doesn't confine us.

No. I'm complaining too.

As someone who occasionally uses a wheelchair when making long train journeys, I'd like to have it recorded that it's not the strikers who are "playing the disabled card". It's the passengers. And I am happy to join them.

For those of us who lived in the Midlands in the sixties:- Radio Caroline North or Radio Caroline South?

Simple? If everyone was a vegan, the logical conclusion to reach is that chickens, cows, pigs and sheep would all become extinct. Who in their right mind would keep farm animals alive if there was no use for them?

I don't believe that Freemasonry holds the power it used to. In fact, I remember my boss at East Sussex County Council's Highways & Transportation Department telling me that he was the first non-Freemason to reach the heights of Assistant County Engineer in almost 100 years. These days, I...

Aren't there DOZENS of Lodges that meet at the Queens Road Masonic Centre?

Whatever the law might be about how cameras are positioned, it remains the case that speeding is illegal and dangerous. Frankly I couldn't care less whether a speeding offence generates some income for the government. It's more important that speeding motorists are encouraged to put a stop to...

Nowhere near as much as dealing with a bad case of cramp by simply accepting that running is out of the question and choosing to motor on with a series of fours and sixes.

We have the Victoria Hospital in Lewes, which is handy for the folk who can use it, but it doesn't seem to have much of an impact on how busy the RSCH gets.

The bizarre thing about A&E units is that they deal with accidents AND emergencies. Why should someone with a broken ankle have to be triaged in competition with someone who has had a cardiac arrest? Separate units for injuries and health emergencies surely make sense, no? And pharmacists...