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Radio 4,04 Feb 2014,20 mins

Help for aspiring disabled MPs; bell ringing

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Ellie Southwood and Mark Higgins are aspirant MPs, intending to win council seats in the May elections. They are both blind and explain to Peter White about the fund designed to help disabled people get into politics. They explain some of the strategies they use to canvass and get their message across. Tom Walker meets Rob Bywater, who is partially-sighted and learning to become a bell-ringer. Rob showed Tom the ropes...

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