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Lord Ashley of Stoke, 1922-2012

There was sad news last weekend as the death of Lord Ashley of Stoke (formerly Labour MP Jack Ashley) was announced. He was 89. Two years after entering Parliament in 1966, Ashley lost his hearing. At first he planned to resign his seat, but instead took a crash course in lip-reading and continued to serve in the House of Commons until 1992, when he entered the Lords.

Tributes and obituaries throughout the media have focused on Ashley's major role as a disability campaigner through the years - including pushing for live captioning on TV for deaf people, fighting for Thalidomide survivors and, in the last bill he introduced to the Lords in 2007, arguing for people with autism to be given Blue Badges. Lord Ashley also founded and chaired the All Party Parliamentary Disablement Group for over four decades.

At the end of last week, hundreds of workers at Remploy, the state-owned company which provides employment and placement services for disabled people, in London and Sheffield. They were protesting against plans to close 36 of the 54 Remploy sites this summer, which will leave 1,500 disabled employees facing compulsory redundancy.

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