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Radio Tees,3 mins

Disabled people 'do not want red carpet treatment'

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A Paralympic champion who has experienced her wheelchair being lost and broken on flights said disabled people should be able to travel without being "humiliated". Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, who lives in Stockton on Teesside, said she had also been wrongly blamed for a delayed flight when the captain told passengers it was "because of a wheelchair". Stuart Whincup reports.

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