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   BBC Ouch! disability newsletter: benefits, bounty hunters and baronesses
Disabled baronesses Tanni Grey-Thompson and Jane Campbell,, blind football and bounty hunters. Plus brilliant advice from the ever incredible Ouch! message boards. DIS CONNECTED: TANNI GREY-THOMPSON MEETS JANE CAMPBELL A witty, revealing and often surprising video chat between two iconic disabled women who have recently become baronesses in the House of Lords. DISABILITY B1TCH CAN'T RUN AND CAN'T HIDE The rhetoric against benefits scroungers steps up a-pace as 'Bounty Hunters' are employed to track down potential fraudsters. DB is in lockdown. INTERVIEW: BLIND FOOTBALL As the Blind Football World Cup kicks off at the RNC in Hereford, England players Dave Clarke and Simon Hill talk us through some of the sport's more complicated and unusual rules. OUCH! TALK SHOW #54: AUGUST 2010 Featuring trips to Lourdes, tingly tongues and a classic Veg, Veg or Veg, plus Rob's big announcement and music by the Mariana Hollow. Liz Carr and Gary O'Donoghue present. DIS CONNECTED VIDEO INTERVIEW SERIES Trisha Goddard, Cerrie Burnell, Cara Readle, Gail Porter, Blaine Harrison, John Horan, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and now, Baroness Jane Campbell. All disabled in some way ... and all sharing their knowledge and experience in these seven intimate videos. DISCUSSIONS .. what you're talking about on our knowledgeable and insightful Message boards. Disability Dragon's Den Disability and getting a job Student support - medical needs in "uni" DISABILITY NEWS Check out our regularly updated news headlines page STUFF WATCH: Madness in the Fast Lane - In 2008, BBC One viewers watched extraordinary footage of two sisters throwing themselves into traffic on the M6. But that was just the beginning, as this documentary reveals. Leading criminal psychiatrist Dr. Nigel Eastman explains the difficulties the judicial system has in achieving justice and deciding punishment when dealing with mental illness. He explains the possible causes of the womens' behaviour, and why, in his view, it could happen again. WATCH: Tulisa: My Mum and Me - In this BBC Three documentary, Tulisa Contostavlos from N-Dubz, whose mum has experienced mental health problems since before she was born, finds out what life is like for some of the 80,000 young people in Britain caring for a parent in the same situation. LISTEN: THE CHOICE - Michael Burke talks to Heather Pratten about her decisions to help her terminally ill sons in very different ways.
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