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East Midlands Airport has opened a new quiet room and sensory pod to support neurodivergent travellers and people with anxiety.

A compelling new exhibition will showcase the experiences of people with a learning disability and autistic people who have been detained in mental health hospitals, along with their families’ struggle to secure their release.

Jill Jones responds to the news that royals and celebrities have been warned to watch their words when out and about. Lip-reading is very much guesswork and relies on a great deal of factors, including having good English competency, which many congenitally deaf people do not have due to lack of support in education.

Adam Pearson, who has neurofibromatosis, was targeted on X by US comedian Danny Polishchuk after he attended this years’ Academy Awards. Polishchuk posted an image of Pearson at the ceremony with the caption: ‘Me and the boys after taking Chinese Peptides for 5 years’.

Kyla Harris, the co-creator and star of BBC comedy drama series We Might Regret This, has been with her partner for eight years. But they won’t move in together, because it means she could lose some of her means-tested funding.