Below is an extract from the new book All About Us! The story of people with a learning disability and Mencap. The book is compiled by Mencap president Brian Rix. The text below is by Mencap chief ...

More adults with learning disabilities and autism in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are "locked up" in mental health hospitals, new figures show – as a charity urged the Government to end the "human ...

Dozens of people with learning disabilities and autism were "locked away" in hospital across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough as of September, new figures show. October is Learning Disability Awareness ...

Annabell Downey’s breast cancer was diagnosed only after she collapsed and was taken to hospital — by which point it had already spread. Her experience highlights growing evidence that having a ...