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Wheelchair user "had to crawl up cinema stairs"


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15 Aug 2008 3:46PM

A cinema has been the centre of protests after a teenage wheelchair user had to crawl up the stairs because of the lack of wheelchair access to the building.

Amy Clements, 15, who has spina bifida, organised the protest of more than 20 people outside Hereford's Odeon after her experience, which left her feeling “embarrassed”.

 Jim Lawes, president of Hereford's Access for All scheme, told the BBC they had been campaigning "for years" to get the cinema to improve ... (333 more words)



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