After a week of tall tales, our April Fools’ Week Competition is over and it’s time to announce the winner. Well done to everyone who correctly identified that the story about flying wheelchairs and force field enhanced walking sticks was made up in the Blue Badge Style offices. Thank you to all those who entered…
I applied to speak at Digital Shoreditch, and surprisingly I got a slot under the banner “What Tech City?” . Digital Shoreditch is a festival over 10 days where you can, “Discover and explore the latest trends & successes in using digital in : branding, content, funding, games, design, social, mobile, emerging tech & greater good.”…
Anthony’s is in the Corn Exchange – a fabulous listed building in Leeds that “houses some of Leeds’ best known independent retailers.” The food is designed to appeal to “all food lovers and not just a chosen few.” We haven’t audited Anthony’s yet but we managed to find out that there are steps into the…
We haven’t audited Malmaison, Newcastle but we found out they have accessible rooms on every floor. All of them have walk in showers, hand rails and emergency cords. As for the entrance there is a ramp in, however if you try to access the hotel round the back it may be a bit tricky. To get to…
Malmaison have 12 unique boutique hotels and this one is in London. We haven’t been to the hotel yet but they told us that they do have accessible rooms – with wheel in showers, emergency cords and hand rails. The entrance is flat and there are lifts to each floor. The restaurant is also accessible…
The average television watcher will spend more than two weeks looking for lost remote controls during their lifetime. The average time spent searching per week was 5.35 minutes, which amounts to 278.2 minutes or more than four and a half hours a week. Over the course of an average lifespan, the number of hours rockets…
Officials at a Mid Devon Council had no idea what they were letting themselves in for when they decided to take the apostrophes out of the local road signs. They believed that the move would help to avoid confusion and make things easier. How could they have known that their actions would turn the locals…
Tate Britain is the original Tate art gallery that houses a large collection of Turner Paintings and is home to the Turner Prize. Access around the gallery is easy in a wheelchair. It’s a long walk if you’re on sticks but they provide a mobility scooter if you want one. There are accessible toilets on…
A Scottish man has claimed that a parrot robbed £600 in cash from him during his holiday in New Zealand. He had been driving around the South Island of New Zealand in a campervan, when he stopped to take pictures of the scenery. He got out of his car to photograph a kea (a species of…