Three people climb the highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales wearing a 35kg bomb disposal suit.

A BBC reporter tells how she has been forced into hiding after reporting on the threat witchdoctors pose to albinos in Tanzania.

The chief executive of a newspaper publisher is among Cumbrians recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

The world's most advanced commercially available bionic hand has won the UK's top engineering award.

Scientists use X-rays to find the lost rear limb of a fossil snake locked in 92-million-year-old Lebanese limestone.

A hoard of false legs found stashed under the floorboards of a retired taxi driver's home is helping earthquake victims in Pakistan.

A group of soldiers serving in Afghanistan mark the New Year by running a 24-hour marathon for charity.

A cricket match near Basra between an Army XI and the old enemy Australia provided a welcome tonic.

Campaign groups welcome a new European law that gives greater rights to disabled airline passengers.

A charity says most of the servicemen who have lost limbs in Iraq or Afghanistan have returned to duty.

She's wowing audiences in the US version of Strictly Come Dancing and confounding her critics, but is Heather Mills an inspiration or irritation for other amputees?

While covering the war in Iraq, BBC producer Stuart Hughes lost his leg in an explosion. His new prosthetic foot is so advanced, it may even allow amputee soldiers back into battle.

Veterans minister Tom Watson visits Britain's largest private collection of WWII memorabilia.

Technology that enables artificial limbs to be directly attached to a human skeleton is developed by scientists.

The paintings of Ali Abbas, a boy who lost both arms in a bombing raid in Iraq, are exhibited.

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A WWII veteran skydives from 16,000 ft to help other former servicemen who have lost limbs.

Poor weather grounds WWII veteran's parachute jump to help other former servicemen who have lost limbs.

A government department reverses its refusal to backdate disability allowance to Iraqi war orphan Ali Abbas.

A disability charity says the problems encountered by war victim Ali Abbas in claiming benefits are often experienced by other disabled people