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Bus Access breakthrough, DWP silent on benefit claim system, Praise for TfL, Fitness to work test improvements.

Submitted by Phil on 7th May 2013 - 11:11

As I write this a man is lying underneath my powered wheelchair trying to fit a new left hand motor because the old one has developed a sort of nervous ticking noise. Very reminiscent of the days when most children rode around on Raleigh bikes and shoved a lolly stick into the back wheel spokes in order to make a similar clicking sound! The trouble with this annoying noise on a powered chair is that you can’t creep up on anyone and you spend all day on tenterhooks waiting for the chair to breakdown.

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