International Paralympic Day

Today Thursday 8th September is International Paralympic Day and the event is being marked by a massive event celebrating disability sport in London's Trafalgar Square.

Northamptonshire is being represented in the event by 17 year old Dermot Bailey from Kettering who is the Number 1 Junior Wheelchair Tennis player in Great Britain and also ranked 9th in the world. He will be joining 2 of his British team mates for a game of Wheelchair Tennis with Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

For more information on International Paralympic Day click on the following link http://www.london2012.com/events/international-paralympic-day-2011.php and to see what Dermot's up to and his thoughts on the day's proceedings you can follow him on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/dermotbailey.

All of today's events in London proceed the Paralympic tickets going on sale tomorrow Friday 9th September of which more details can be found by clicking on this link http://www.tickets.london2012.com/.

For more information on disability sports opportunities in Northamptonshire please contact Graeme Wilson either via email gwilson@northamptonshire.gov.uk or phone 01604 367953.

You can also click here to see a list of all the current disability sports clubs in the county Graeme Wilson will be discussing the disability sports scene in Northamptonshire on the BBC Radio Northampton breakfast show (104.2 FM / 103.6 FM) tomorrow morning Friday 9th September 8:20am - 9am along with other key disability sport representatives in the county. If you are unable to hear this at the time of broadcast you can listen again any time for the next week on the BBC Radio Northampton website http://www.bbc.co.uk/northampton/programmes/schedules.