Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
Why is so much of Britain’s infrastructure literally falling apart?
13 Sep 2023
News
Press release on the Autumn Statement.
Lib Dems condemn “chaotic and incompetent” budget
17 Nov 2022
Sewage in our Rivers
The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.
14 Sep 2022
Liberal Democrats hold Stockton Council to account
Liberal Democrats will be asking questions of Stockton Council's Cabinet at the Council meeting tomorrow, Wednesday 9th September.
8 Sep 2009
Withering on the vine
The agenda for one of next week's Council Committee meetings has a bit on "priority improvement objectives" whatever that means. But, one of the "objectives" is "converse with local people to increase their participation in democratic management."
CJC
7 Sep 2009
Heather Kidd Supports £6000 Pay Rise For Troops
Heather Kidd, the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Ludlow Constituency, is strongly supporting Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's proposals to increase the pay of the lowest-paid troops by £6,000 a year. The proposals, which would mean that no service personnel in the Army, Navy or RAF would receive less basic annual pay than a new-entrant police constable or development-level firefighter, would be funded within the MoD's existing budget.
7 Sep 2009
Robin Lawrence calls for big pay rise for servicemen and women on the poverty line
Robin Lawrence, Liberal Democrat candidate for Wolverhampton South West, has called for the Government to award big pay rises to military personnel many of whom are risking their lives on the Afghanistan front line. He is backing new Liberal Democrat policy to give the worst paid servicemen and women, who earn less than trainee police officers and fire fighters, pay rises worth almost £6,000 a year.
7 Sep 2009
Market Woes
Labour run Leicester City Council has given a private company permission to run a market with up to 150 stalls at the Walkers Stadium on Sundays and bank holidays from October. When the plan was announced last week, furious market stallholders said in the local press that it would put a "nail in the coffin" of Leicester's 700-year-old market.
7 Sep 2009
Rowen Highlights Arthritis Campaign
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen, who was made an honorary member of the board of trustees for the Arthritis Research Campaign (ARC) back in May of this year, spent the day at their HQ in Chesterfield to learn more about the work they carry out.
7 Sep 2009