EDF’s Visitor Centre at the Heysham Power Stations has hosted the company’s first-ever deaf awareness event.

Under the European charter that Britain is signed up to, the Government is required to adopt measures to protect and promote ...

In Belfast, even in Unionist neighborhoods, Gaeilge, the once-outlawed Irish language, is enjoying a remarkable resurgence with new schools and bilingual signs.

It was a bright, Christmassy kind of day as I walked over the Thames on my way to Santa School. In a Bankside office, just yards from where the Elizabethan Rose Theatre was re-discovered, I joined a ...

A health trust apologises to a deaf couple for the distress caused after they were left without a British Sign Language interpreter.

A health trust has apologised to a deaf couple after hospital staff did not know what a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter was. Colleen Agnew's husband was taken to hospital recently after an ...

Elderly Brits are at “breaking point” and are cutting back on food so they can pay their council tax, a leading charity has warned. Research from Independent Age found 27% of older people on a low ...

Charities welcome 'landmark' step in establishing British Sign Language GCSE, but next step rests with exam boards Charities welcome 'landmark' step in establishing British Sign Language GCSE, but ...

UK: The Rail Delivery Group is planning to develop a centralised British Sign Language real-time information system to make the national railway network more inclusive for deaf passengers. Pre-market ...

Ofqual has set out rules for the assessment of a new GCSE in British Sign Language (BSL). The regulations have been set following a second consultation and detailed collaborative working with ...