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One of Scotland’s leading champions for people with disabilities has died 21 years after being diagnosed with motor neuron disease (MND). Euan MacDonald, 50, was diagnosed with the condition that affects the brain and nerves at age 29. He created the unique Euan’s Guide, a disability review website and smart phone app for disabled people, their families and their carers.

What would it be like to hire your best friend to help you wash, move and go out, asks this joyous disabled-led show that’s also a veritable who’s who of modern British comedy.

Craig Brett, age 33, has Leber Congenital Amaurosis, a rare, inherited eye disorder. Craig works full-time as a software engineer and is also a volunteer, helping to run RNIB’s Connect group in the east of England for online gaming.

A disabled people’s organisation is calling on coffee shops to do more to avoid the “pervasive humiliation” faced by many customers who stammer when they try to place their order. Many people who stammer can be rushed, ignored and even mimicked when they try to order a coffee, says STAMMA.

Profoundly deaf in one ear, Marie Pascall struggled to pick up the lyrics at concerts without the help of a performance interpreter – so she became one herself.