Researchers say they have made the most significant breakthrough for 15 years in the quest to understand the fatal condition Motor Neurone Disease (MND). A team says a mutated gene is behind one form of the disease - and can be used to understand it better.
A man and two youths who kicked a disabled man to death over a £5 bet have been jailed for life. Brent Martin, 23, who had learning difficulties, died in hospital after he was found in a pool of blood on Sunderland's Town End Farm estate.
People who care for elderly relatives will no longer have their benefits cut if they get a job under government plans, Harriet Harman has said. The women's minister told a newspaper she wanted to make it easier for carers to have a job at the same time.
Former Home Secretary David Blunkett has called for a reversal of Aberdeen City Council's decision to cut funding for a factory for the disabled. Mr Blunkett said he was "deeply disturbed" that the Glencraft workshop faced closure. Speaking in Aberdeen, he said disabled workers needed to feel valued.
Concerns about the NHS care of a disabled hereditary peer who died in a Berkshire hospital are to be referred to the Health Secretary. Crossbencher Baroness Darcy de Knayth, 69, who was wheelchair-bound after a car accident, died at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough on Saturday.
Nick Clegg questions the Government's "half measures" on mental health
