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    Attacks on disabled people still rife - one year on from Paralympics triumph

    Success of GB athletes fails to alter attitudes, as poll shows widespread verbal and physical abuse

    The vast majority of disabled people in Britain feel there has been no improvement in attitudes

    towards them a year after the Paralympics and many feel stigmatised as "benefit scroungers"

    while suffering hostility and abuse, a leading charity has warned.

    Campaigners said the sea change in perceptions of people with disabilities generated by the London

    2012 Games has been eroded by misleading rhetoric from politicians and within the media about

    welfare payments and a crisis in living standards for the disabled caused by spending cuts.

    Twelve months to the day after the opening ceremony for the Paralympics, the host city for the

    Games - which thrust athletes such as Jonnie Peacock and Ellie Simmonds into the same spotlight

    as Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis - has one of the highest rates of attacks on disabled people.

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