He died on 7 December 2023.

"Frankly, I will do the same with them," Jaishankar added.An amateur dramatics group started in 2019 by a husband and wife team says it wants more people with disabilities to try acting.

Richard Prior, who has muscular dystrophy, founded The Whodunnit Theatre Company with his wife Kayley and said performing "changed his life".Mr Prior said the Bristol group is a "home for all" regardless of acting experience or ability and that it can be "off-putting" to join a new group especially when you have additional needs.The company is currently rehearsing their annual play for 2025, Blackadder II, for which they received special permission from the original screenwriter, Richard Curtis.

Diagnosed with muscular dystrophy aged nine, Mr Prior said drama has given him "hope and enjoyment in life".He will be playing the role of Lord Percy in this years production and said "I'm going to be dressed very brightly and with my limp I need a cane.

"Its going to be worth the ticket money alone to see me dressed as him".

Mr Prior said "we want to give everybody an opportunity" adding "performance is important but we're friends and we have a laugh and that's the most important thing".After Lungu's defeat in the 2021 election, he stepped back from politics but later returned to the fray.

He remained the biggest political drawcard of the PF, and he had ambitions to vie for the presidency again.However, at the end of last year the Constitutional Court barred him from running, ruling that he had already served the maximum two terms allowed by law.

Five councillors have pleaded guilty to health and safety charges after a disabled swimmer almost drowned in a leisure centre pool in East Ayrshire.Ryan Deans, 25, had to be resuscitated after being submerged for almost two minutes before the alarm was raised at the Galleon Centre in Kilmarnock in 2023.