Retailer Debenhams is advancing the cause of disability equality by featuring a wheelchair user in a window display at its Oxford Street store in London.
Shannon Murray, 32, has used a wheelchair since she broke her neck, aged 14, when on a family holiday.
Murray has just completed the Debenhams photo shoot and the images are expected to go up next week.
It is welcome news for disability rights campaigners who too often have to contend with stories such as the one about BBC presenter Cerrie Burnell, whose disability was considered too shocking for her young viewers, and the one concerning retailer Abercrombie & Fitch, which fell foul of discrimination safeguards.
Let us hope that there will be many more Shannon Murrays.
You can read Shannon Murray's blog, Straight Talking, Random Thinking.
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