And the wheelchair user has been asked whether he would be interested in entering politics.

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Wheelchair user Eileen Carroll said she was "stunned" when she was turned away because she was a "liability".

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When Brent became a wheelchair user, Lance noticed that people treated him differently than before he was sick.

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Wheelchair user Steve Cooper, of Wellingborough, lives in a two bedroom house that has been specially adapted for his use.

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Wheelchair user Vicci Chittenden said it is this kind of lack of access that "makes a person with an impairment disabled".

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Maria Nash, who is a wheelchair user, claimed Barnet Council failed to carry out a proper impact assessment under the Equality Act.

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That award went instead to French actress Sylvie Testud for Lourdes, in which she plays a wheelchair user visiting the titular Catholic shrine.

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Ms Nash, who is a wheelchair user, is also claiming the authority failed to carry out a proper impact assessment under the Equality Act.

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Lego builder Eric Steenstra built a fully functional go-kart made entirely out of Lego bricks, and in an inspiring story, artist and wheelchair user Sue Austin created a self-propelled underwater wheelchair that allows her to glide through the sea.

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After knee replacement surgery a few years ago, Traum stopped running himself and switched to a hand-crank wheelchair, which is low, has three wheels and is moved by the user's arms.

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