Disability charities have raised concerns over decreases in donations and fundraising as the Covid-19 situation continues to escalate .

For the first time ever, students with visual impairments and print disabilities will now be able to access more than 500,000 academic books and resources in their preferred formats.

There were 48,848 visually impaired people on waiting lists for their first appointment with an eye specialist, last year, and more than a quarter of those had been waiting at least 18 months.

The Menu has to cast his mind back to the literal and metaphorical dark days of boarding school to recall the last time he regularly ate in total darkness, scoffing biscuits under the covers after lights out, the better to supplement the school canteen’s daily deep-fried offerings of items that may or may not have contained actual food.