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Afghanistan Amputee Has Benefits Cut After Atos Test

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 28.09.2012 | UK
Read More: Dwp, Benefits Cut, Benefits, Disability Allowance, UK News, Welfare Reform, Aaron Moon, Amputation, Department of Work and Pensions, Atos, Video, UK News

A royal marine who lost his leg in a roadside bomb in Afghanistan has had his disability benefits cut after being assessed by private firm Atos. A...

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Lottery Winners Buy Torch-Bearing Teen New Limb

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 31.07.2012 | UK
Read More: UK News, UK Impact, Charity, Colin and Chris Weir, UK Sport, Olympic Torch, Kieran Maxwell, Amputation, Euromillions, Charitable Donations, UK News

A teenager who lost a leg to cancer "started yelling and dancing" when he heard Britain's biggest lottery prize winners have bought him a new prosthet...

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Britain's Paralympic Veterans

Thomas Morris | Posted 24.07.2012 | UK Sport
Read More: Jon-Allan Butterworth, Pace, Veterans, Paralympics, War, Wheelchair, Disabled, Britain, Cycling, Olympics, 2012, London, Charity, Documentary, Rehabilitation, Limbless, Tom Morris, Disability, Amputee, Amputation, Blesma, Spoken, UK Sport News
Thomas Morris

After the First and Second World Wars, over sixty thousand military amputees came home. Three years later, Britain hosted the Olympics, and a small hospital in Buckinghamshire put on the world's first 'Wheelchair Games'. Now in 2012, the future of the British forces in Afghanistan is being decided.

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Woman Had Five Stone Leg Amputated, Only To Find It Grew Back

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 07.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Proteus Syndrome, Mandy Sellars, UK News, Health, Rare Diseases, Strange Illness, Disability, Amputation, Five Stone Leg, UK News

A woman who had one of her five stone legs amputated has been shocked to find the stump has nearly grown back to its original size. Mandy Sellars f...

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