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This week the new Disability Correspondent for BBC News,

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Hello and welcome to News watch. Coming up this week, with a new

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correspond and appointed specialising in the area, how should

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BBC News improve its coverage relating to disability? And Hampden

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Park it, no tie and a crumpled shirt, the present of Newsweek this

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week. In recent weeks both the BBC director of news and the Director

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General have vowed to increase the representation of those with

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disabilities on screen and off, after registers from its governing

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body. But does it live up to its goal to be the best provider of news

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for those with a disability? Some viewers have their doubts, such

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Nicole may be pleased to hear that BBC News now had in place its first

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disability correspond and, Nikki disability correspond and, Nikki

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Fox. In the weeks then she took up the post she has been busy. Every

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step of Al is taking is imitating the natural walking pattern. ``

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Valerie. There is a motion sensor just there, which detects four

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movements and turns them into steps. I had a target before, about 5.5%

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and you did not meet that target. What makes you think you can reach

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this one? I want to know how we make a difference, I am less interested

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on why we haven't done things but what we can do. What I am hoping is

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with bringing somebody who is going to take a lead on this, someone in

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charge to make sure people with disabilities can come into the

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corporation and get looked after when they are here, and the other

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plans we said today is we will get to 5% target by 2017. I'm hopeful we

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might even get beyond that. You do not know unless you try, there is

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always another book to read or film to watch. I nosy to nosy to want to

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die. The Lords will be debating whether a form like this will be

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available to those with a terminal illness. Two doctors will have to

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agree the patient has a condition which gives them six months or less

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to live and they are of sound mind. You saw her in those reports and

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here she is in the studio, our disability correspondent. Thank you

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for coming on. What have the BBC said your role is about and what do

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you hope to achieve? What I would love to achieve, I would love to get

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those big and important stories that have something to do with disability

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mainstream news. We want reports, we want our pieces to be on the six

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o'clock News, breakfast News and the ten o'clock news. We have a large

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remit. We want to serve the 20% of the audience that have disability or

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are affected in some way by disability. Is it just about serving

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them or about how people with disabilities are represented to the

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general audience? It is both. We have is massive stories coming up.

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We want to get a nice balance, a bit of light and shade. At the same

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time, as I have done with my career prior to this job, whenever I have

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done anything to do with disability, I have wanted it to be accessible to

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everyone. To people who are not disabled as well as those that are.

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User. There are big stories coming up, what are they? `` you said

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thereafter? There is welfare re`form, the closing of the

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Independent living fund. We are looking into that. We will do a big

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story on that. Also the changes to education and how they are affecting

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people with special educational needs. We have loads. I have to keep

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some of them under my hat. Are their topics and stories that have not

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been told or are not being told at the moment? Yes. I think this role

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was created because the BBC were aware they were not necessarily able

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to serve the disabled audience and this is great, this is what they are

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doing about it. This is my job, my big responsibility, which I will

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take very seriously. Some of it is quite practical. There is an effort

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by broadcasters to update the language relating to disability, the

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issue of language, is it still an issue? It can be. I have been

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disabled all my life and I have a disabled sister. Even I sometimes

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get the language wrong. Luckily, we have had a very positive way to

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response from the pieces that have gone out. I have been very aware

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there was one time when I said disabled people rather than people

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with disabilities, it was just a slip. I did not mean to say it. You

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can get a bit hung up on language. It is very important for me, in my

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job, I have to get it right, it is what I'm paid to do. At the same

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time, there is no need to be too hung up on it. At the same time, you

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have to try and get it right. I certainly do. How do you see

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yourself? A campaign or a spokesperson in any way? I see

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myself as a correspond on, just like every other correspondence. Like

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everyone I work within Salford. I see myself as a correspondent and

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journalist. My specialist area is disability. I do have the unique

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perspective because I am disabled and always has been. Of course, I

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have that little bit of extra something to to the role will stop I

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want to do as good a job as every other correspondence. This is my

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specialist area, just like our 's is the sum. Some people would say there

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can be some serious politics around certain aspects of disability

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issues. Sometimes there may be a story where there is an argument

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about doing adaptations. In that kind of situation, would you be

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happy about giving both sides of the story equal prominence? Absolutely,

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it is something I did for my radio documentary. I spoke about how my

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dad has a small business and he might not necessarily be able to

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afford to employ somebody with a disability. 100%. That is the job of

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a journalist, you have to give both sides. I do not have an agenda, but

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I have a unique perspective of what it is like to be disabled. I have

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great ideas and I have always had great ideas, she says, that is a bit

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vain. I have lots of ideas I want to bring. And lots of areas I want to

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cover. Thank you. Pleasure. Let us know your thoughts on the coverage

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of disability issues or an any aspect of BBC News. Details of how

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to contact us at the end of the programme. Now for some of your

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other concerns, starting with the coverage of the Ebola outbreak, a

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disease with a high mortality rate. Our correspondence reports from

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Guinea. A few days ago health workers could not get into this

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village, but they have made a breakthrough here today. People are

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bringing out their sick relatives and agreeing to be checked over the

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symptoms of Ebola. That raised the question to several viewers.

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There is a common dilemma when news covers a big sporting event, around

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how much to focus on the winners whether they come from, and how much

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on the performance of any of the UK teams, especially when the

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Commonwealth Games are being held in Glasgow. Just a few weeks before

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Scotland's highly contested referendum on independence. On

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Thursday night, a Scottish athlete finished second in the hurdles. Not

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the medal she would have wanted, but based or have one to celebrate. Mike

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Ellis from Preston was among those who felt they detected a trend in

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news reporting of the Commonwealth Games. He said:

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Finally, since Jeremy Paxman left Newsnight a number of different

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people have hosted the show and will continue to do so over the summer

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before Evan Davis takes up his place as the lead presenter. On Wednesday

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it was Robert Preston's term. After huffing and puffing the European

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Union has responded to the shooting down of the Malaysian airlines

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flight, moving to stage three sanctions against Russia. The

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appearance of the BBC's economic correspond and caused a bit of the

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staff or stop should he have had his hand in his pocket at the start of

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the show? What about the lack of a tie and had that shirt seen an IM

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recently? `` iron recently. Many approved of the debutant's the

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performance. On that positive note, we leave you

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for our summer break. We will be back in September, but in the

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meantime share your opinions on BBC News and current affairs. They will

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be read and heard and will feature on the programme when we return.

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You can also have a look at our website. If you miss us in the next

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month you can watch any additions and discussions of the programme

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from the past year. That is all from us, have a good month and join us

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again in September. Hello, keep your eye on the forecast

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over the next few days, a lot going on, much of it wet. Brain pushing

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into southwestern parts of England and Wales over the next few hours.

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`` rain. Most of the action will be further west, moving northwards as

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we go through the early

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