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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson unveils plan to improve air travel accessibility

‘It’s about treating everyone with respect from security to the gate,’ said Lady Grey-Thompson

The Independent UK

Aviation staff need disability training, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson says

The Paralympian and crossbench peer said the 19 recommendations put forward by her taskforce should be ‘turned into action’.

The Independent UK

Alan Cumming to receive honorary degree from University of St Andrews

Graduation ceremonies will include ‘distinguished individuals’ honoured for their contribution to sport, politics, science, medicine and the arts.

Evening Standard

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Wheelchair user left on a plane for almost two hours after landing

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The Independent UK

‘Get a grip!’: Disabled BBC correspondent slams Heathrow after long wait to disembark plane

Exclusive: ‘Why should disabled passengers have so much worse service than everybody else?’ – Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent

The Independent UK

“Absolutely Disgraceful”: Netizens Slam Airline After Disabled Man Was Forced To Crawl To Bathroom

A disabled BBC journalist was forced to crawl to the bathroom on his flight. The post “Absolutely Disgraceful”: Netizens Slam Airline After Disabled Man Was Forced To Crawl To Bathroom first appeared on Bored Panda.

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BBC’s Frank Gardner criticises airline after crawling to toilet on flight

Journalist says experience on LOT Polish Airlines flight that had no aisle chair was ‘quite degrading’

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BBC journalist calls for airline to ‘join the 21st century’ after being forced to crawl to toilet on flight

‘This is just discriminatory’, the BBC security correspondent said on X/Twitter

The Independent UK

BBC's Frank Gardner forced to crawl to toilet on LOT flight as plane had no wheelchair

Polish airline LOT has apologised to Frank Gardner for his ‘distressing’ experience

Evening Standard

Obituary: Supercars engineer Campbell Little dies aged 65

One of Australia's most influential motorsport engineers, Campbell Little, has passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Autosport

Top 10: Ranking the greatest BTCC drivers not to be champion

The British Touring Car Championship has been one of the most competitive and popular series in the UK since it began in 1958.

Autosport

Sunak reshuffle: Grant Shapps to replace Ben Wallace as defence secretary

Rishi Sunak has reshuffled his top team by appointing Grant Shapps as the new defence secretary to replace the outgoing Ben Wallace.

The Week

Who owned these old military epaulettes uncovered in a Newcastle house?

One of Newcastle's mysteries is seeking a solution.

Newcastle Herald

BBC reporter left paralysed by Al-Qaeda gunman stranded on plane at Gatwick Airport

Frank Gardner, 60, was left outraged after being left abandoned on a plane after landing Gatwick Airport - as the journalist admits this isn't the first time this has happened to him

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Evening Standard

Disabled BBC journalist Frank Gardner hits out as he is left stranded again on plane at Gatwick

Mr Gardner was left partially paralysed after being shot by al Qaeda gunmen in Saudi Arabia in 2004

The Independent UK

Disabled BBC journalist abandoned on Iberia plane after landing at Gatwick

‘Just WHY are UK airports so consistently crap at getting disabled people off planes?’ rages BBC’s security correspondent

Wales Online

BBC reporter Frank Gardner who was paralysed by al Qaida gunman fuming as he's left on plane

Frank Gardner said it only ever happened in the UK

The Independent UK

BBC journalist and wheelchair user Frank Gardner stranded on plane at Gatwick

The security correspondent was left on the aircraft after flying to the West Sussex airport with Iberia Express on Thursday night.

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‘It’s not the waiting, it’s the indignity’: disabled passengers tell of air travel torment

As campaigners highlight how the burden of travel chaos is falling on disabled passengers, five people describe their recent airport indignities

Daily Record

Wishaw MP appeals to disabled people to share their airport experiences

Marion Fellows had already been investigating the state of special assistance in air travel when the news broke that a passenger on a flight to Gatwick died.

Daily Mirror

Disabled easyJet passenger dies 'falling down escalator' at Gatwick Airport

It has been alleged that the death of an unnamed man occurred after assistance didn't arrive promptly aboard an easyJet flight at Gatwick Airport and they made their own way to terminal

The Guardian - UK

Disabled passenger abandoned on a plane at Manchester airport for over two hours

Daryl Tavernor, who has spinal muscular atrophy, calls for review of the airport’s services for wheelchair users

Wales Online

Paralysed Britain's Got Talent star Jonathan Goodwin says he was left on a plane for hours

The Pembrokeshire star was left paralysed by a stunt which went wrong during his rehearsal on America's Got Talent. He was left on the plane as he waited for his wheelchair

Daily Mirror

Disabled passengers stuck on landed flights for hours due to 'outrageous incompetence'

BBC Security correspondent Frank Gardner was let onboard an empty jet at Heathrow Airport on Sunday evening after flying back from Estonia to the UK

Evening Standard

BBC’s Frank Gardner stuck on empty plane at Heathrow due to ‘lack of staff’

Heathrow Airport has come under fire after a disabled BBC journalist was left waiting on an empty plane and told there was “no staff” to help remove his wheelchair.

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