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The Welfare Reform Bill and being closely followed by many disabled people.

On Wednesday there were anxieties that moving the debate from the floor of the main chamber meant it might get and we saw

wheelchair-using baronesses Grey-Thompson and Campbell appealing that the proposal to move it to a smaller committee room would mean it was less accessible for disabled spectators and for the viewing public at home.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission released a report this week on concluding that the cases which make the national press are just the tip of the iceberg. It finds that low level harrassment seems to be accepted.

In a rare bit of light-hearted news, it was announced on Thursday that London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff - the UK's capital cities - will host Paralympic flame lighting events starting August 24th next year. After separate relays, all four flames will unite at a special ceremony at Stoke Mandeville, spiritual home of the games, on the 28th; it will be taken to London from there.

Elsewhere in the news:

(The Guardian)

(The Huffington Post)

PM backs MPs' criticism of health regulator (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)

Henry Winkler, the Fonz in Happy Days, appointed OBE (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)

Report calls for more failing care house protection (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)

Asylum's demolition marks end of era in mental health (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)

London 2012: How Stoke Mandeville put Paralympics on the map (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)

(The Guardian, Comment Is Free)

Why are Britons so gloomy in middle age? (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)

(The Daily Telegraph)

(Mail Online)

(Mail Online)

(The Independent)

Health service for prisoners with learning disabilities (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)