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Sam Vestey, 21, believes the wheelchair icon featured on blue badges and disabled parking bays is outdated and has launched an alternative logo.

JACK TEAGUE: I can reveal Sam Vestey - 3rd Lord Vestey, confidant of the Queen and Master of The Horse, who died last year aged 79 - did not emulate those ancestors.

A Gloucestershire student has launched a campaign to get the blue disabled badge changed to make it more inclusive.

Queen's late close friend Lord Vestey to be honoured at Cheltenham Festival 2021 Mirror 9/03/2021 Replay Video A late friend of The Queen will be honoured at the 2021 Cheltenham Festival. A race has been named after Lord Vestey, a former long-serving chairman of the racecourse who sadly died in February at the age of 79. The Grade Two Sam Vestey National Hunt Novices’ Chase will be run as the seventh and final contest on the opening day of the fixture, March 16. Until the 1930s it was the second most important jumps race in the calendar after the Grand National. Ian Renton, Regional Man...

Lord Vestey ‘abidingly proud of his Australian descent’ By Mark McGinness Save Normal text size LORD VESTEY: 1941-2021 The 3rd Lord Vestey, who has died aged 79, was the half-Australian heir to a meat fortune, the surviving great-grandson of Dame Nellie Melba, and the head of one of the richest families in Britain who, for most of his life, were owners of vast holdings in the Northern Territory and Queensland. Within four generations, the Vesteys went from a Merseyside slaughterhouse to a magnificent Cotswold country house hosting titled grandees and members of the innermost circle ...