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A teenage wheelchair user from Sheffield has paid his first cheque into his local bank after a four year battle to get access.
David Allen (pictured), 19, took the Royal Bank of Scotland to court after it failed to provide disabled access at its Church Street branch.
In November 2009 judges dismissed the bank's appeal against a ruling ordering it to pay damages and install a lift.
The estimated cost for installing the platform lift was £200,000.
David's mother, Ceri, said: "We are absolutely thrilled about it."
She said the lift was very good and added: "David will be able to come and do his own banking. And a young man of 19 should be able to do their own banking business."
The Church Street branch is a 19th century listed building where access to all entrances was by flights of stone steps.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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