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Alexys Brown death: Housing and lift firms fined £1.5m

Two companies have been fined a total of £1.5m following the death of a five-year-old girl in a disability lift. Alexys Brown died in hospital after putting her head through a broken screen in the lift at her home in Weymouth on 13 August 2015.

16 Jan 2019
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Domino's Pizza app must be accessible to blind people

Domino's Pizza has been told its website and app must be made fully accessible to blind people, after losing a legal case in the US. It follows a complaint from a blind customer who said he first struggled to change toppings and then was unable to complete a pizza's purchase using the company's iPhone app.

16 Jan 2019
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May's Bad Brexit Deal Defeated - Long Live Democracy

So after two-and-a-half years of incompetence, indecision and ineptitude, Theresa May's Brexit deal has been resoundingly rejected by the House of Commons. Despite postponing her "meaningful vote" by over a month in order to rally support for her bad deal, it was voted down last night by an historic parliamentary majority of 230, the biggest government defeat ever.

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16 Jan 2019
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