When Katie takes a job in a centre for people with Down’s syndrome, she’s the model carer – until the terrifying flashbacks startFrom Don’t Look Now to The Masque of the Red Death, physical disability has been a troublingly cheap way for horror directo…
Woman with Down’s syndrome loses UK abortion law case
Heidi Crowter argued that allowing pregnancy terminations up to birth if the foetus has Down’s syndrome is discriminatoryA woman with Down’s syndrome who took Sajid Javid to court over the UK’s abortion law has lost her case in the high court.Heidi Cro…
‘I’m loving life,’ says first CBeebies presenter with Down’s syndrome
George Webster, a 20-year-old actor from Leeds, was overwhelmed by the reaction to his first BBC showAt 7.23am on Monday, George Webster made TV history when he bounced into the CBeebies house.Most young viewers would have been unaware they were witnes…
Handsome review – meandering Down’s syndrome road trip
The world travels of a pair of brothers, one with Down’s, start to look like a middling gap-year projectOn the rare occasions the cinema has engaged with Down’s syndrome – 1996’s The Eighth Day and 2019’s The Peanut Butter Falcon are the main ones to s…