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June Lush, 78, who has been deaf since early childhood, initially felt overwhelmed and in pain when she was involved in a crash on the A6 in Derbyshire. Fortunately, one of the first responders was firefighter Ben Middleton, who was quickly called over to interpret, utilising his newly-acquired British Sign Language (BSL) skills to take care of her.

Two hundred lawyers have come together to challenge a wave of discriminatory exclusions. Government data released this summer showed there were a record 9,400 permanent exclusions in 2022-23, up 45% from 6,500 in 2021-22.

The BBC has been given rare access inside MI5’s headquarters in London to meet a senior intelligence officer who shares what it was like to discover he was neurodivergent.

Northern Rail has trialled technology which means interpreters appear on trains’ on-board screens, for example to let passengers know about the next stop. The system, piloted on trains between Manchester, Leeds and York last year, will be introduced across the fleet next year.

A Derbyshire charity has completed “phase one” of a project to transform a disused piece of land at a train station into a community space. Just Good Friends, which supports adults with learning disabilities, started work to create a sensory garden at Whitwell Station, Derbyshire, in September.