Last weekend, hundreds of campaigners took to the streets to battle against the government's Bedroom Tax and benefit cuts. Activists from lobbying group UK Uncut covered the pavement outside the Highgate home of the minister for welfare reform Baron David Freud. They held aloft a banner that read "Who wants...

"The world can be tough, but it can also be beautiful. I'm determined to experience both," Kevin, who volunteers for the Royal London Society for Blind People, told me last week at lunch.

When Kevin isn't volunteering for us, he's composing music, searching for a job and...

Louis Braille, his life and achievements, will be remembered and celebrated this week as part of National Braille Week. Braille was 15 when he developed his tactile code for the French alphabet in 1824, so it is quite remarkable when one imagines what an impact his work has had on...

People often ask me what the worst thing about being blind is. My response to them is that you'd be forgiven for thinking that it is not being able to see. But actually there is an untold story when it comes to the dark reality of sight loss, particularly childhood...