Over 50 years since they appeared on London's streets, the Route masters are still running - but not everyone is delighted. The veteran vehicle with its curvy design and its open platform has been called "the last bus to be a proper bus". Many Londoners remember fondly how they used to hop on and off them and pull the string to ring the bell.
Teachers in mainstream schools do not expect as much of children with special needs as their counterparts in special schools, new research has suggested. The Strathclyde University study has raised concerns the pupils may not be doing as well as they could.
A part of the brain associated with emotional learning and fear shrinks in people with autism, research suggests. Teenagers and young men with autism in the study who had the most severe social impairment were found to have smaller than normal amygdalae. The researchers from the University of Wisconsin suggested the amygdalae may shrink due to chronic stress caused by social fear in childhood. The study was published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Swansea NHS Trust will try to appeal against a High Court judgement in which full compensation was guaranteed to a disabled boy. The High Court in London ruled that Jac Richards, 10, from Llanelli, would have escaped injury had he been delivered by caesarean 10 minutes earlier.
A 16-year-old has been arrested in connection with an incident during which a car was stolen from a disabled woman in Edinburgh.
Two teenagers who stole a car from a disabled pensioner in Edinburgh are being sought by police. The 77-year-old woman had called out a mechanic after her a gold Toyota Yaris had failed to start when the incident happed in East Parkside on Tuesday. He arrived at 1815 GMT and began working on the car. Once the mechanic fixed the car and with the engine still running he went to fetch the owner. She then spotted two youngsters jumping into it and driving off.
