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BBC - Ouch - Sep 16, 2008
Remember the end of the Olympics, when Great Britain was trumpeting the huge success of Team GB at finishing up in fourth place on the medals table, only just behind the big guns of China, the USA and Russia, with a …
BBC - Ouch - Aug 26, 2008
Just under two weeks ago, I posted here about the coverage of record-breaking Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps seeming to omit reference to top Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson, who has an equal tally of 11 gold medals to …
BBC - Ouch - Aug 22, 2008
The new Downing Street site has all the trendy social media clichés covered. You can watch their videos on YouTube, even follow the PM's Twitter feed and like all good 'web 2.0' sites it's in BETA! However, they've …
BBC - Ouch - Aug 21, 2008
Whilst you might have heard about the boxing-style tussle that was going on at the front of the race during the Women's 10k Open Swim. ...An equally significant event was taking place for disability sport in the water …
BBC - Ouch - Aug 13, 2008
I've been interested - but also rather irritated - by the coverage of US swimmer Michael Phelps' achievements at the Beijing Olympics this week. For those of you who don't know, he's just broken the record for winning …
BBC - Ouch - Apr 3, 2008
Well actually I haven’t unfortunately; it has been all over the news on the last few days that a nation wide free travel scheme has been launched for the elderly and people with disabilities. On hearing the news about …
BBC - Ouch - Mar 31, 2008
Recently, in response to the statement that disabled people would get "No Special Treatment", the author of Benefit Scrounging Scum discussed her experiences of being on benefit and wrote of the coming reforms to …
BBC - Ouch - Mar 17, 2008
New research out suggests that one in five school children are showing signs of learning disability and 55% of children ‘failing’ their SAT’s are showing ‘symptoms of developmental learning problems’. This story …
BBC - Ouch - Mar 14, 2008
I wasn't going to write about this, but then I read one too many news stories and lost my temper. Controversy has erupted over... well look, the thing that controversy has erupted over is quite different from the …
BBC - Ouch - Feb 22, 2008
Wednesday night saw the BBC’s Inside Sport programme head off to Beijing to report on various aspects of the forthcoming Olympics and Paralympics. Included in the show was a report by Tanni Grey Thompson focussing on …