By TOM DOWLING IMPROVING life chances of people with mental health conditions should be at the heart of the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights' work says an advisory group.

By NO BYLINE TRANSPORT minister Stewart Stevenson has urged people with disabilities to try out Edinburgh's buses at a special event next week.

A stand-up comic is the last thing you expect when you get on your morning bus. But that was what scores of commuters were met with yesterday.

By NO BYLINE DISABLED people still lack confidence in using buses and trains, despite improvements to make them more accessible. A nationwide poll by the Disability Rights Commission found disabled people four times more likely to have difficulty using buses and trains than able-bodied people.

By ALASTAIR DALTON TRANSPORT CORRESPONDENT DISABILITY campaigners have warned a bus operator that it might be discriminating against wheelchair users after an electrically powered chair was banned for being too large.