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Roxy Murray
Roxy Murray is a British stylist, podcaster and disability rights advocate. She is the founder of ''The Sick and Sickening'' podcast and is known as the "Multiple Sclerosis Fashionista." Biography Murray was born in Paddington, London. In 2014, Murray was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) whilst studying Fashion Design, Styling and Promotion at Middlesex University. She has written about her journey to diagnosis for the Multiple Sclerosis Trust. Murray is a disability rights advocate and is the founder and host of ''The Sick and Sickening Podcast''. She has campaigned for the sexual rights of disabled people, raising awareness of how people with disabilities are "desexualised, ignored and under-represented" in society and medicine, sharing stories of her experiences in dating and exploring her sexuality with her disability, and collaborating on the Channel 5 programme ''Adults Only Sexual Healing''. Murray has also worked as a stylist and walked the catwalk at London F ...
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Middlesex University
Middlesex University London (legally Middlesex University and abbreviated to MDX) is a public research university based in Hendon, northwest London, England. The university also has campuses in Dubai and Mauritius. The name of the university is derived from its location within the Historic counties of England, historic county boundaries of Middlesex. The university's history can be traced to 1878 when its founding institute, St Katharine's College, was established in Tottenham as a teacher training college for women. Having merged with several other institutes, the university was consolidated in its current form in 1992. It is one of the post-1992 universities (former polytechnics). Middlesex has a student body of over 19,000 in London and over 37,000 globally. The university has student exchange links with over 100 universities in 22 countries across Europe, the United States, and the world. More than 140 nationalities are represented at Middlesex's Hendon campus alone. Additi ...
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Paddington
Paddington is an area in the City of Westminster, in central London, England. A medieval parish then a metropolitan borough of the County of London, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Paddington station, designed by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel opened in 1847. It is also the site of St Mary's Hospital and the former Paddington Green Police Station. Paddington Waterside aims to regenerate former railway and canal land. Districts within Paddington are Maida Vale, Westbourne and Bayswater including Lancaster Gate. History The earliest extant references to ''Padington'' (or "Padintun", as in the ''Saxon Chartularies'', 959), historically a part of Middlesex, appear in the documentation of purported tenth-century land grants to the monks of Westminster by Edgar the Peaceful as confirmed by Archbishop Dunstan. However, the documents' provenance is much later and likely to have been forged after the 1066 Norman Conquest. There is no ...
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Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease resulting in damage to myelinthe insulating covers of nerve cellsin the brain and spinal cord. As a demyelinating disease, MS disrupts the nervous system's ability to Action potential, transmit signals, resulting in a range of signs and symptoms, including physical, cognitive disability, mental, and sometimes psychiatric problems. Symptoms include double vision, vision loss, eye pain, muscle weakness, and loss of Sensation (psychology), sensation or coordination. MS takes several forms, with new symptoms either occurring in isolated attacks (relapsing forms) or building up over time (progressive forms). In relapsing forms of MS, symptoms may disappear completely between attacks, although some permanent neurological problems often remain, especially as the disease advances. In progressive forms of MS, bodily function slowly deteriorates once symptoms manifest and will steadily worsen if left untreated. While its cause is unclear, ...
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Multiple Sclerosis Trust
The Multiple Sclerosis Trust (MS Trust) is an independent, national UK charity that was established in 1993. The MS Trust works to provide information for anyone affected by multiple sclerosis, education programmes for health professionals, funding for practical research and campaigns for specialist MS services. The Trust is based in the Spirella Building in Letchworth Garden City. Activities The MS Trust provides an Information Service for all people affected by MS. It also publishes a range of books, factsheets and DVDs on aspects of the condition. These include a DVD of exercises led by Mr Motivator. Campaigns Campaigning is based on promoting access for people with MS to high quality specialist services Recent campaigns have included: * Supporting MS specialist nurses whose posts are threatened * Monitoring the implementation of the NICE clinical guidelines for MS * Campaigning for access to licensed symptomatic and disease modifying treatments. Research The MS Trust ...
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Channel 5 (British TV Channel)
5 (formerly known as Channel 5 and Five) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global's Paramount Networks UK & Australia, UK and Australia division. It was launched in 30 March 1997 to provide a fifth national terrestrial channel in the United Kingdom. Channel 5 was renamed Five, from 16 September 2002 until 13 February 2011. Most of this was under the RTL Group's ownership with Richard Desmond purchasing the channel on 23 July 2010 and reverting the name change.'Mini-revamp planned for Channel 5 News'
ATV Network, 30 October 2010
On 1 May 2014, the channel was acquired by Viacom (2005–2019), Viacom (now Paramount Global ...
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London Fashion Week
London Fashion Week (LFW) is a clothing trade show that takes place in London, England, twice a year, in June and September. Showcasing over 250 designers to a global audience of influential media and retailers, it is one of the 'Big Four' fashion weeks, along with New York Fashion Week, New York, Milan Fashion Week, Milan, and Paris Fashion Week, Paris. History and organisation Organized by the British Fashion Council (BFC) for the London Development Agency with help from the Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills, London Fashion Week first took place in February 1984. Lynne Franks had influenced the idea of putting together the London shows into a schedule. London Fashion Week currently ranks alongside New York, Paris, and Milan as one of the 'Big Four' fashion weeks. It presents itself to funders as a trade event that also attracts significant attention from the press and benefits taxpayers. Over 5,000 press and buyers, with orders of over £100 million. A retail- ...
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Adaptive Fashion
Adaptive fashion refers to clothing, footwear, and accessories specifically designed for people who have difficulties dressing themselves due to physical disabilities, limited mobility, or other physical impairments.Bhandari, Babita. (2024). Adaptive Clothing Brands in Mainstream Fashion. Journal of the Textile Association. 84. 151-154. Retrieved 2025-06-09. This includes individuals with permanent or temporary conditions such as limb differences, vision or hearing impairments, developmental disabilities, diseases like muscular dystrophy or multiple sclerosis, broken limbs, or impairments associated with ageing. Adaptive clothing aims to address the lack of accommodation for user's capabilities or body shape and conventional garment design, which can make standard clothing inaccessible. The goal of adaptive fashion is to enable people with disabilities to participate easily in daily activities, and feel a sense of social belonging. Well-designed adaptive clothing can reduce depend ...
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Adaptive Clothing
Adaptive clothing is clothing designed around the needs and abilities of people with varying degrees of disability, including birth defect, congenital disabilities, acquired disabilities (such as the result of an injury, illness or accident), age (elderly people may have trouble with opening and closing buttons) and temporary disabilities, as well as physical disability, physical disabilities. Adaptive clothing is influenced by factors such as age, disability type, level of independence, mobility and dexterity, as well as whether a person requires help when dressing, such as from a caregiver. People who struggle with zippers, shoelaces, buttons or even fabrics and texture due to a type of disability may need adaptive clothing. Most adaptive clothing designs are taken from general-market clothing, the comfort of which began to increase in the 1950s, with new technologies such as elastic waistbands and stretchy fabrics. Adaptive clothing is utilized by people with a wide range of di ...
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100 Women (BBC)
''100 Women'' is a BBC multi-format series established in 2013. The annual series examines the role of women in the 21st century and has included events in London and Mexico. Announcement of the list is the start of an international "BBC's women season", lasting three weeks including broadcast, online reports, debates and journalism on the topic of women. Women around the world are encouraged to participate via social media and comment on the list, as well as on the interviews and debates that follow release of the list. History After the 2012 Delhi gang rape, then BBC Controller Liliane Landor, BBC editor Fiona Crack and other journalists, were inspired to create a series focusing on the issues and achievements of women in society today. They felt that many of the issues women faced were not getting in-depth coverage, and in March 2013 a "flood of feedback from female listeners" was received by the BBC to the effect that the corporation should provide more "content from and a ...
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Alumni Of Middlesex University
Alumni (: alumnus () or alumna ()) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women, and alums (: alum) or alumns (: alumn) as gender-neutral alternatives. The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from "to nourish". The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former members of an organization, former contributors, or former inmates. Etymology The Latin noun means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from the Latin verb "to nourish". Separate, but from the same root, is the adjective "nourishing", found in the phrase '' alma mater'', a title for a person's home university. Usage in Roman law In Latin, is a legal term (Roman law) to describe a child placed in fostera ...
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British Disability Rights Activists
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** British Isles, an island group ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** British Empire, a historical global colonial empire ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) * British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire * British Hong Kong, colonial H ...
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