Yesterday, Tim Farron delivered his leader's speech to Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference in Brighton. In it, he talked at length about where we, as a country go from here, about Brexit and the politics of fear, division and hate.
The excellent Liz Leffman has been selected by the Liberal Democrats ahead of the Parliamentary by-election in Witney caused by...
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council have revealed almost £67m of public money has been spent on buying properties outside the county, using a council-owned property company called Halsey Garton Property Limited. The properties purchased with funding from the Conservative-run Council were mainly warehouses situated in locations such as Wiltshire, Bristol, Worksop and Salford. The most expensive acquisition was an office in Bristol, at the cost of just under £20m.
In 2012, the European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for its contribution to advancing peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe. Here is the full citation:
We have experienced delays of months and more when asking for broken and missing street name plates to be replaced and now we know why. I discovered, after some detailed questioning of Council officers, that there is no money in the Council's general budget for street signs although 200 have been reported missing or broken. The Council is managing to fix just 50 per year out of another pot of money, and as the number needing fixing is growing all the time, it doesn't take a mathematician to realise this problem is just going to get worse.
Jill Allen-King OBE, the well-known national campaigner for the blind and partially sighted, and a local Lib Dem member, hast been appointed to be a member of c2c's Passenger Panel.