61 h. ago Wheelchair user misses train and branded ‘rude’ by station staff after they refused to get ramp

The 26-year-old PhD student said she faces ‘access roulette’ on public transport and has been forgotten about on trains and left without a ramp when disembarking

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3 d. ago ‘I was unable to travel and called rude when station staff refused to assist me with a ramp’

The 26-year-old PhD student said she faces ‘access roulette’ on public transport and has been forgotten about on trains and left without a ramp when disembarking

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4 d. ago Disability activist stranded on Liverpool Street platform after staff 'refused to get ramp'

The wheelchair user said she was left crying at the busy station after staff members claimed she was ‘rude’ and refused to provide a ramp for her

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4 d. ago Disability activist left in tears stranded on a train platform after station staff 'called her rude and repeatedly refused to get a ramp'

Anna Landre, 25, a wheelchair user, was banned from boarding any trains from Liverpool Street Station on May 18 and eventually forced to return home.

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7 d. ago American woman living in the UK reveals Brits have called her 'rude' for her typical US habits

The woman, who goes by @ yorkshireyank on TikTok , often speaks about the cultural differences between America and the UK.

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9 d. ago Teenage yobs slammed for lighting flare in forecourt of Newmains petrol station

The youths were captured on CCTV causing havoc at the Cooper Brothers filing station in Overtown Road with shocked staff contacting police after the worrying incident.

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3 w. ago CCTV appeal after KFC staff member racially abused at M6 service station

Police were called to the KFC restaurant at Lymm Services on April 21

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3 w. ago The ‘rat person’ trend is here – and I thoroughly approve | Arwa Mahdawi

Do you like sleeping, eating and scrolling? Me too. What if I told you this was also a way to protest capitalism?Somewhere in Zhejiang province, China, a woman is living my dream. She gets up in the morning and then, almost immediately, goes back to bed. She lies prostrate all day long, scrolling, eating some food, opening some packages, showering at 2am, then snoozing again. As a longtime sleep enthusiast – and the mother of a child who thinks that 5am is a good time to start the day, all systems go – I think this sounds like bliss.The woman in Zhejiang is known as @jiawensishi – and also “rat person”. I am not being rude; that’s what she calls herself. There are lots of rat people out there: it’s a whole trend in China. You might have heard of the “lying flat” movement a few years ago, when young people lazed around displaying symptoms of mild depression, and some thinkers, including the novelist Liao Zenghu, theorised that it was a passive-aggressive resistance movement, rebellin...

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3 w. ago Brits say they'll never travel without one item after Spain and Portugal blackouts

British holidaymakers in Spain and Portugal have admitted they will do one thing different next time they travel abroad - after the blackouts left them unable to spend money

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