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This year's Download music festival in Leicestershire has received lots of negative feedback on social media from disabled people. From unstable wheelchair stands to tents being pitched too close together and people getting run over. Festival-goers tell us accessibility has taken a nosedive in the year Download marked its 20th anniversary. To get to the bottom of what happened, we hear from three people who were at the festival and the founder of Festability.
Nikki Fox returns to the subject of Child Trust Funds set up during the noughties under Labour, and discovers that if you have over £6,000 in savings at 18, and can't spend it due to incapacity rules, your Universal Credit entitlement shrinks. Was that really the plan?
And we speak to the founder of Wheely Haunted, Jayne Mortimore, who has not only seen and heard ghosts but has also created a website where you can find that most elusive of things ... an accessible old building that everyone can visit to find paranormal happening.
Presented by Nikki Fox and Emma Tracey. Recorded and Mixed by Dave O'Neill, produced by Keiligh Baker, Emma Tracey, Damon Rose and Beth Rose. Edited by Damon Rose. email [email protected] if you want to chat to the team.
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This year's Download music festival in Leicestershire has received lots of negative feedback on social media from disabled people. From unstable wheelchair stands to tents being pitched too close together and people getting run over. Festival-goers tell us accessibility has taken a nosedive in the year Download marked its 20th anniversary. To get to the bottom of what happened, we hear from three people who were at the festival and the founder of Festability.
Nikki Fox returns to the subject of Child Trust Funds set up during the noughties under Labour, and discovers that if you have over £6,000 in savings at 18, and can't spend it due to incapacity rules, your Universal Credit entitlement shrinks. Was that really the plan?
And we speak to the founder of Wheely Haunted, Jayne Mortimore, who has not only seen and heard ghosts but has also created a website where you can find that most elusive of things ... an accessible old building that everyone can visit to find paranormal happening.
Presented by Nikki Fox and Emma Tracey. Recorded and Mixed by Dave O'Neill, produced by Keiligh Baker, Emma Tracey, Damon Rose and Beth Rose. Edited by Damon Rose. email [email protected] if you want to chat to the team.
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