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Tackle the topics and issues related to the work we do with this hub of news articles about Difference and disability rights in the North East. 

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Disabled climate action forum: A cup of coffee with plant Earth inside with the writing DCAF on it

Who Turned Off the Lights? Disabled People & Power Outages

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June 23, 2026
Living Library Disability History Month. Black-and-white photograph of members of the Disabled People’s Direct Action Network (DAN) protesting in the street in 1995, with wheelchair users and other disabled activists gathered beside a double-decker bus. The image has a grainy documentary style with bright yellow, cyan, and pink colour overlays, giving it a bold, archival activist poster aesthetic.

Living Library Disability History Month 2025-2027. Were you there in 1995?

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May 22, 2026
Report 2026 Disabled Northeast: A disabled woman navigating a pavement with accessibility barriers in Darlington town centre

Access to the Everyday Report 2026: What Disabled People in the North East Are Telling Us

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February 12, 2026

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How accessible is your online presence for disabled people: A laptop with a glowing turquoise or cyan screen enclosed within a decorative vintage birdcage with dark purple or black metal bars, suspended against a yellow background with a halftone dot pattern.

Problems With Digital Accessibility

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July 28, 2020

More self-isolation?

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March 24, 2020

A Dog Journey Part 2

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December 4, 2019

A Dog Journey Part 3

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November 25, 2019

A Dog Journey Part 1

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November 15, 2019
A surreal, melting clock inspired by Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory, with distorted numbers and a warped frame. The image is edited in purple and black tones, emphasizing a dreamlike quality. A fly rests on the clock face, adding to the sense of decay and transformation. The artwork symbolizes how disability changes time perception, evoking themes of altered rhythms, delays, and nonlinear experiences of time

Disabled Time

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May 13, 2018
Percy Hedley Foundation logo

Reflections on Work & Life as a Disabled Person

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April 13, 2018
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All day Buss pass - Access all hours! Too Late to be fair! An image of the speaker of the House of Commons speaking as result were read out. On the right a digital image of the angel of the north in gatehead. on the left a logo saying "im on board, access to the day, straightway"

Too Late To Be Fair: The Simple Question of All-Day Bus Access

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September 19, 2025
True Cost of Gluten-Free Living. Collage of images from the BBC segment about the NHS consultation. Image is colourise yellow, blue and purple.

How a Proposed NHS Change Shows the True Cost of Gluten-Free Living

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September 16, 2025
5 big ideas Accessible Transport. A bus in front of the angel of the north. Discover five big ideas from Sustrans and Transport for All to make transport more inclusive for disabled people. See how Difference North East is shaping transport planning in the Tees Valley and beyond.

5 Big Ideas to Make Transport Accessible for Disabled People

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September 5, 2025
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