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Parents to sue after son choked

The parents of a disabled man are to sue the owners of a care home where he choked to death on a pickled onion. Martin Hardy, who was 27 and from Clay Cross in Derbyshire, died in February at the Leonard Cheshire Home in Retford, Nottinghamshire.

20 May 2007
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Lens technology aids dyslexics

Parents whose children have a learning disability will grasp at anything they feel will help their child, and many have spent hundreds of pounds kitting their children out with coloured lens spectacles. They look a bit odd, but children and teachers report dramatic changes in learning ability and concentration.

20 May 2007
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Charities back Remploy closures

Trade unions say they are furious that six leading charities have backed plans to close dozens of factories which provide jobs for disabled people. Remploy, which has 5,000 disabled staff at 83 plants in the UK, says it has to cut costs.

20 May 2007
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Government must back international Climate Change targets

Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Minister Martin Horwood has criticised the government after David Miliband refused to assure Parliament that the Government would back European demands, against the wishes of the United States, for binding targets to combat climate change. Mr Horwood had questioned Mr Miliband on the issue at Defra questions in the House of Commons yesterday.

19 May 2007
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