"The second phase of the scheme – extension to the rest of the EU – will go ahead," a DoH spokesperson said.
"Back then it was decided we would go down a different route, we would put better red warning lights on the back of buses."That more than 20 years later there are still safety improvement calls, she said, is disappointing.
A French horn player has said that being part of an orchestra that includes disabled and neurodivergent musicians has helped her to be herself.Georgina Spray, 25, plays for and is assistant music leader for the Birmingham National Open Youth Orchestra (NOYO) ensemble.She is set to perform with the orchestra in an inclusive concert experience at Birmingham Town Hall on 8 June.
"As an autistic musician, NOYO has given me opportunities within the music sector… I'm in an ensemble where I belong and I can be myself," she said."I started playing the French horn when I was 12, and I love making music and playing with other musicians."
NOYO sees 11 to 25-year-old disabled and non-disabled musicians rehearse and perform together.
The event on Sunday is set to have a relaxed atmosphere designed to welcome neurodivergent and disabled audiences.Ngũgĩ didn't stop there. The same year, he co-wrote the play Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want), which was a searing look at Kenya's class struggle.
Its theatre run was shut down by the government of then President Jomo Kenyatta and Ngũgĩ was locked up in a maximum security jail for a year without trial.It was a fruitful 12 months, however - as Ngũgĩ wrote his first Kikuyu novel, Devil on the Cross, while in prison. It is said he used toilet paper to write the entire book, as he did not have access to a notebook.
Ngũgĩ was released after Daniel arap Moi replaced Mr Kenyatta as president.Ngũgĩ said that four years later, while in London for a book launch,