I’m so fed up with my impractical utility black chair so as part of Brunel University London’s Co-Innovate programme we challenged final year Product & Industrial Design students to come up with new ideas. They have produced designs which address some key issues for practical, yet chic, wheelchair use. The results are in the photo gallery…
The chaos that was Black Friday shopping is thankfully over. No more angry mobs trampling security cards and breaking down doors to get into Primark, no more neighbours fighting each other off to get their hands on the cheapest flat screen TV and no more petrified adolescent shop assistants taking refuge from the flying fists…
We were recently sent a couple of rollators to test out. This is the second of the two. It’s the Troja rollator, from Topro in Norway (actually we were sent this from somewhere in Surrey). Unfortunately, our rollator using reviewer pulled out at the last minute, so we put together this video showing off the…
The European Access City Award is an annual prize set up to reward the European city that has done the most work to improve its accessibility for less able residents and visitors. For 2014, Gothenburg was named the EU’s Access City for its holistic and comprehensive approach to access. Sweden’s second city was declared to…
The Rake, in Borough Market, is an award winning bar specialising in beer and packing in an incredible amount of variety into a very small space. The bar is owned by Richard Dinwoodie and Mike Hill – the two owners of Utobeer – and is a true haven for beer connoisseurs, with the beer changing pretty…
Outside the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre at Salisbury Hospital lies Horatio’s Garden – a beautiful, peaceful, restorative haven for the patients there and a fitting tribute to a young man who played a key role in its creation before passing away much too young. It’s a wonderful space and a beautiful idea. Horatio…
Yesterday, to tie in with the final week of the 2014 Formula One Championship, we wrote about the ways which less able drivers can take part in motor sports. But we decided, since the F1 are doubling up this week with double points, we’d do something similar. Here’s part two of our disabled motor racing…
All eyes will be on Abu Dhabi this weekend as the Formula One machine rolls into town for the final, title deciding, race of the season. After ten wins from eighteen races over eight months, fifty five laps of the desert track are all that stand between Lewis Hamilton and his second Formula One Drivers’…
Winter’s just about here (apparently it’s going to the wettest in 33 years – a miniature nightmare for wheelchair users) and at this time of year, as the weather starts to turn nasty and the nights draw in, there’s nothing like some warming grub and a nice glass of wine. So that’s something I’ve been…