Leonard Cheshire: Last News

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.More than a third of train stations in South Lanarkshire don’t have step-free access for disabled passengers.Research by charity Leonard Cheshire has revealed that seven of the 19 stations across the region still require upgrading to allow disabled passengers to use the trains.Burnside, Carluke, Carstairs, Croftfoot, Hamilton West, Kirkhill and Uddingston stations don’t have step-free access.The disability charity is now calling for a new law that guarantees all rail journeys in Britain will be fully accessible by 2030 after their research suggested the network will not be fully accessible to disabled people until 2070.Just three stations in Scotland

stolen bank card to treat herself to a takeaway meal and a gym membership.Ashley Spiers, 19, made the orders online from her Edinburgh home, paying £31.99 to Pure Gym and £22.30 for a Just Eat order.The bank card had been stolen by her serial thief boyfriend from a premises in the city belonging to disability charity Leonard Cheshire.Jailbird Ryan Comerford, 28, admitted reset of the card, which the pair also used online to buy goods from JD Sports worth £90.99.Spiers appeared in person at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.Comerford, who is already serving a sentence of more than four years, appeared via video link from the city’s Saughton Prison.The pair admitted using the card from Spiers’ then address in Muirhouse, Edinburgh, on March 5.Spiers