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Comedian Chris McCausland, Strictly Come Dancing’s first blind contestant, has been crowned this year’s winner. The 47-year-old beat JLS singer JB Gill, actress Sarah Hadland and former Love Islander Tasha Ghouri to lift the glitterball trophy in Saturday’s live final on BBC One.

Actress Rose Ayling-Ellis, who made history on Strictly Come Dancing as the show’s first deaf contestant, has received an MBE at Windsor Castle for services to the deaf community.

A Down’s syndrome charity has said it can keep its cafe open after a successful fundraising drive. Sunshine and Smiles in Leeds had been at risk of having to cut services and shut the cafe, which employs 10 young people with the condition.

Dr Helen Care says we have to start looking at the wider picture and ask what schools are for, Helen Kinsey says it is a false economy not to be supporting the most vulnerable.

A disabled man has said he was “unfairly removed” from a music event in London, after venue staff mistook his medical condition for being drunk. Matthew Parrott, 48, from Oxford took his wife, Beth, to London to watch Glass Animals at The O2 Arena on 7 November but missed the headline act when he was removed after suffering a fall.