Craig Y Parc School has opened a unique course for wheelchair users to learn road safety. At a special event, Councillor Daniel De’Ath, Lord Mayor of Cardiff visited the school to officially declare the facility open before taking a spin around the course in a motorised wheelchair. The wheelchair driving school was designed and constructed by Luke Bacchetta and Nia Roberts from the assistive technology and occupational therapy teams at Craig Y Parc School. By speaking to students, parents and…
He’s walked an incredible 4,509 miles to date; beginning on 5th March 2018 at the Baltic in Gateshead, through Northumberland, the entire coastline of Scotland, Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside and North Wales to Dublin. By September 2019, Brian Burnie, 75, completed walking the island of Ireland, meeting with doctors, oncologists, politicians, all the Lord Mayors and hundreds of well wishers. Despite his developing Parkinson’s Disease, founder of the charity ‘Daft as a Brush Cancer Patient Care’ is on a 7,000 mile…