A leading disabled activist was left “humiliated” and “incensed” after she was twice interrupted by London 2012 staff while watching the Paralympic Games opening ceremony to be told her guide dog was a health and safety hazard. Sue Bott, director of development for Disability Rights UK (DR UK), had been given tickets to the event [...]

London 2012 organisers have admitted that only one in 50 of the volunteers who took part in the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games was a disabled person. The ceremony has been widely-praised, particularly for the performance of its 73 professional Deaf and disabled performers and the work of its two disabled co-directors, Jenny Sealey [...]

Cyclist Mark Colbourne has spoken of the “quite breathtaking” experience of winning Britain’s first medal at the London 2012 Paralympic Games in a packed Velodrome. Colbourne, a former Welsh volleyball international before he became disabled in 2009, won silver in the one kilometre time trial, and revealed that the thunderous roar of the crowd had [...]

Disabled activists who have prepared a national week of protests against the Paralympic sponsor Atos have explained why they chose not to target the London 2012 games themselves. Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) had suggested previously that they could target this week’s Paralympic torch relay, with a direct action protest at the decision to allow [...]