Great British Bake Off: First Deaf Contestant Is Tasha Stones From Bristol
A woman from Bristol has been named as The Great British Bake Off’s first deaf contestant.
Participation officer Tasha Stones, 27, will be one of 12 people competing on the Channel 4 show when it returns in September.
She will be accompanied by a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter.
Ms Stones said: “I couldn’t have done it without him and without the dedication from the show ensuring I had the same access as the other bakers.”
“Seeing him up at the front and feeling fully part of the show was a really special moment,” she added.
Ms Stones said she left her “application until the last minute” because she was “so nervous about submitting it”.
She and her interpreter both cried when they found out they were going to be on the series, she said.
“We were a mess. I didn’t say anything that made sense because I was so unprepared to be told that, I never thought that it would be me going to the tent,” Ms Stones said.
Chief executive of the National Deaf Children’s Society, Susan Daniels, said it was “vitally important that deaf children and young people see positive deaf role models on TV and in the media”.
Ms Daniels added: “It’s great to see the Great British Bake Off include a deaf contestant for the first time. We’re confident that they’ll rise to the challenge.”
The show, which will be presented by Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond, will have 12 contestants.
When asked which previous Bake Off contestants had inspired her, Ms Stones said: “It’s so hard to pick particular bakers, but I’ll give a special mention to fellow Bristolians Briony and Giuseppe of course.”
The Great British Bake Off returns on 26 September at 20:00 BST on Channel 4.
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Neighbours Returns- And Sam Young Is A Regular
Neighbours has finally returned, after 14 long months off screen. The superfan that is our editor could not be more grateful to Amazon Freevee, the streaming service that has saved her favourite soap.
But she is first and foremost a disabled person and so, she is not only celebrating the two year time jump or the unlikely upcoming wedding.
There’s much more to celebrate in the form of Sam Young, Mike Young’s daughter. Sam has Down’s Syndrome and viewers met her in 2022, when Lassiters hired her as a PA for Chloe Brennan. Sam was expected to be a guest character which, given Neighbours history covering disability, was enough to celebrate in itself.
In 2023, according to Wikipedia, Sam appears to have become a regular. The first Neighbours regular born with a disability.
Freevee really has proved that everyone’s welcome on Ramsay Street. Our editor couldn’t be happier for Henrietta Graham, who plays Sam, or for fans with lifelong disabilities, who finally find themselves included in the best possible way.
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Devon Man’s Guide Dog Attacked By Bully XL Dog
A man whose guide dog was attacked by an American bully XL dog is calling for more regulation around dog aggression.
Steve Darling, leader of the Liberal Democrat group at Torbay Council, said his dog Jennie suffered bites and scratches in the attack on 10 August.
Mr Darling, who is registered blind, said it took himself and three others to pull the dog away from Jennie.
He said he had written to the Home Office to call for “more effective enforcement and early interventions”.
The attack, which happened in Torquay, was reported to police at the time.
The BBC has approached Devon and Cornwall Police for more information.
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed the American XL bully dog would be banned by the end of the year following a series of attacks.
The Prime Minister made the promise after it emerged a man had died after being attacked by two dogs – suspected to be bully XLs – near Walsall in Staffordshire.
The man’s death comes just days after another attack in Birmingham in which an 11-year-old girl suffered serious injuries.
Mr Sunak said on Friday he had ordered ministers to bring together police and experts to define the breed of dog behind these attacks so they could then be outlawed.
‘Straight for the throat’
Mr Darling said the owner of the dog who attacked his had confirmed to him and those who witnessed the attack that it was an American bully XL.
Recalling the attack, Mr Darling said: “Sadly, it just went straight for the throat of my guide dog Jennie and Jennie ended up being on the floor and screaming – something I never want to hear again in my life.
“I ended up wrestling with both dogs on the floor, [there was] no sign of the owner.
“We ended up having four people trying to get the dog off of Jennie.
“We then managed to get Jennie behind a gate while I just lay on the floor on top of this dog to hold it down, and it was really quite traumatic.”
Mr Darling said he was carrying out a survey of vets locally regarding dog attacks, to understand the level of the problem in Torbay.
He added that he had also written a letter to the Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
In the letter, he wrote: “The law shouldn’t focus on certain types of dogs but instead deal with aggression in all dogs, with the response tailored on a case-by-case basis.
“Only then can we properly protect the public and other dogs from aggressive behaviour in all dogs.
“When dogs, including XL bullies, are bred and reared poorly and denied training, socialisation and good care, aggression becomes more likely. That’s what needs tackling.
“We cannot and should not keep adding dogs to the banned list.
“We need a fundamental change to the law on dogs acting dangerously to protect the public now and in the future.”
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Adaptive Fashion On The Runway At New York Fashion Week
More than 70 models with disabilities showcased clothes from brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Adidas and Victoria’s Secret on Wednesday as a part of New York Fashion Week. The runway show was organized by a charity group that works to adapt clothing to meet the needs of all consumers.
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Will Liz Kendall Save The WCA?
With many thanks to Benefits And Work.
As Labour appoints a new shadow work and pensions secretary, we look at the chances that Liz Kendall will come to the rescue of claimants who are unable to work because of disability.
In his latest cabinet reshuffle, Keir Starmer replaced Jon Ashworth with Liz Kendall as shadow work and pensions secretary.
If, as seems increasingly likely, Labour win the next election, it will be Kendall who will make major decisions about the future of welfare benefits.
Perhaps the most important of those will be the fate of the work capability assessment (WCA), the test used to decide who gets to be in the LCWRA group for universal credit and the support group for employment and support allowance (ESA).
Claimants in these groups do not have to prepare for work and receive an additional amount in their benefits.
Under the DWP’s current proposals, access to the LCWRA and support group will be slashed in 2025 and the WCA will be abolished altogether in a rolling programme beginning in 2026/27. Instead, being in receipt of PIP will lead to an additional payment in UC and decisions on capability for work will be left to unqualified work coaches.
Where the Labour leadership in general and Kendall in particular stand on these issues is yet to be seen.
On the plus side, Kendall supported the uprating of legacy benefits such as ESA and JSA during the pandemic, which was only given to UC claimants.
And when the proposal to make it harder to be found to have LCWRA was announced by the government, Kendall criticised them for failing to look after people’s health in the first place due to soaring hospital waiting lists and failing social care. She told the Commons:
“But if you run your NHS into the ground for 13 years and let waiting lists for physical and mental health soar, if you fail to reform social care to help people caring for their loved ones, and if your sole aim is to try and score political points rather than reforming the system to get sick and disabled people who can work the help they really need, you end up with the mess we have today.
“A system that is failing sick and disabled people, that is failing taxpayers, and failing our country as a whole. Britain deserves far better than this.”
But there has been no promise to reverse or halt any of the Conservative proposals around the WCA.
And in the 2015 Labour leadership election, Kendall said that the party had to support welfare benefits reforms or face being out of power for decades.
She was the only leadership candidate to back the Conservative government’s benefits cap.
More generally, there are question marks over Labour’s commitment to disabled claimants.
During the latest shadow cabinet reshuffle, Dr Rosena Allin-Khan resigned as shadow mental health minister because there was no longer a place in cabinet for the role, suggesting Labour is attaching less importance to the issue.
Even if Labour were committed to fighting to improve the lot of disabled claimants, their insistence that all spending must be costed could prove problematic.
If the Conservatives include any savings from changes to the WCA in their spending plans, it places Labour in a difficult position. If Labour say they will not implement any changes, they will consider themselves obliged to say where they will get the cash from to cover what will now be the additional cost of keeping the WCA as it is.
Taking cash from another budget to cover welfare payments seems likely to be something Labour will be particularly reluctant to do.
So, as things stand, hopes that an incoming Labour government will immediately begin to relieve the pressure on disabled claimants seem slim.
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Paul Simon ‘Beginning To Accept’ Hearing Loss
Paul Simon has said he is “beginning to” accept his hearing loss, and that having such a disability “changes how you interact with life” and work.
The US singer-songwriter, 81, revealed in May that he had almost completely lost hearing in his left ear.
The Hollywood Reporter quoted him on Sunday saying: “I haven’t accepted it entirely, but I’m beginning to.”
He was speaking after the premiere of In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon at the Toronto Film Festival.
“I play the guitar every day. It’s the instrument that allows me to express myself creatively,” Simon said.
“But it’s also where I go for solace. If I’m feeling … ‘whatever.’ So it’s a very crucial thing to me.”
He added: “You know, something happens to you when you have some sort of disability that changes your awareness or changes how you interact with life.”
‘Fell into a depression’
Simon, who rose to fame as one half of the 1960s folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, with songs such as Mrs Robinson and the Sound of Silence, released his 15th solo album, Seven Psalms, this summer.
Attempting to play the new songs live, he admitted, has been a challenge.
“Usually, when I finished an album I went out and toured with it, and then I have the opportunity to really investigate the piece,” he said. “And then it evolves to another standard, and goes further.
“Although a week from now I’m going to try and work with two guitarists who will play the parts that I played on the record, and see if I can sing the piece.
“I’m not sure how I can integrate my voice with the guitars.”
In the film, he explains how he “really fell into a depression” over his hearing loss, according to the AFP news agency.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney’s documentary is an engrossing deep dive into the career of the star, from his partnership with childhood friend Art Garfunkel to his exploration of world music on his hit solo album Graceland, and on to his recent hearing problems.
“I’ve never wanted to be anything but a songwriter and a singer since I was 13,” he is heard declaring on screen.
At Sunday’s post-screening Q&A, Simon also revealed he had written a new song called When I Learned to Play Guitar, “but I don’t know if I’ll ever do anything with it” he noted.
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Anger Over Surrey County Councils School Transport Failures
Surrey families have been left without school transport despite the county council promising to “learn lessons” after pupils were stranded last year.
Georgie Morris said her son, Greg, who has severe learning difficulties, missed the first four days of term.
She said she “stopped mentioning” going back to school once she realised transport would not be in place.
Surrey County Council bosses said there were issues finding suitable providers for a small number of children.
Ms Morris said she first had approval in June for transportation for 19-year-old Greg from his home in Dorking to New Malden College.
But having waited through the summer for details to be confirmed she claims she was told the day before Greg was due to go back on 5 September that there was no transport in place.
She said it wasn’t until Thursday, after term started, that Greg’s transport had been confirmed by the county council, to begin on Monday.
Ms Morris said: “I told him ‘It’s so many sleeps until school’, so he was geared up to go to school.
“Once I realised this wasn’t going to happen, I just stopped mentioning it. We just carried on with the holidays.”
Surrey County Council’s leader apologised last year after 149 children, many with additional needs, were left without school transport.
The council said “significant improvements” had been made since last year, but admitted there were issues with finding providers for a small number of children who require specialist provision due to their needs.
A council spokesman said: “We are in direct contact with these families and are actively working with them to find a solution.
“Measures such as personal travel allowances have been offered in the short-term.”
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