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Nnena Kalu has won this year’s Turner Prize, the UK’s most high-profile art award, for her “bold and compelling” sculptures and drawings – and has made history as the first artist with a learning disability to win.

A teenage boy who was left alone upstairs during a school fire has taken his campaign for stronger safety rules for disabled students to Parliament. Lucas Vezza-O’Brien has cerebral palsy and says he was “terrified” when smoke began to fill the corridor on the first floor of his school in Hyde, Greater Manchester, in November 2024.

People with learning disability are being diagnosed with cancer too late, according to research from The University of Manchester and The Christie hospital. A study found symptoms were investigated less often, the patients received less treatment, and had a poorer prognosis.

Sebbie Hall, from Lichfield in Staffordshire, was born with a rare chromosome anomaly that affects his mobility, communication, and learning. Despite these challenges, he has spent the past five years carrying out daily acts of kindness and raising funds for community causes.

Lloyd is eight years old and living with a rare genetic condition that renders him non-mobile, non-verbal, with a severe intellectual disability and reliant on a feeding tube for sustenance. Around 30% of children with such a condition don’t live past the age of five.