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Did you realise that sign names often reflect people’s quirks or that lip-reading is mainly guesswork? Did you realise that sign names often reflect people’s quirks or that lip-reading is mainly guesswork? Writer Charlie Swinbourne reveals what he’d love people to understand about the deaf community.

Alongside TV presenter Sophie Morgan, Disability Rights UK has been part of the Rights on Flights Campaign to demand that the Government gives the Civil Aviation Authority more powers to fine airlines and other actors who fail in their obligations to Disabled travellers.

The Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, has announced that schools across England should ban mobile phone use to improve behaviour. But Contact is urging schools to remember that mobiles phones must be allowed where they provide a “reasonable adjustment” under the Equality Act 2010.

Jack Carroll, now 24, will make his debut on the famous cobbles just after Christmas as Bobby – Carla Connor’s nephew. It’s not the first acting role for Bradford-born Jack, who has cerebral palsy.

Education in England is in danger of being reduced to a “barebones, boilerplate model”, headteachers have said, after an embarrassing £370m government bungle forced them to plan for further cuts.