Although the Labour Cabinet Member rejected the petition so many signed online and on paper, we have not let the matter rest. There's been a lot of chatter about what might happen, so we thought you'd like to see an extract from the letter that's gone out from Council officers to all Head Teachers, which is about as definitive as it gets at this stage.
Over two million people petitioned the government to halt plans for massive cuts to local pharmacy services. Ministers did not listen and pressed ahead regardless.
The Conservative Party has been fined £70,000 by the Electoral Commission for breaking election expense rules. The commission's report highlights "numerous failures" in reporting spending on three by-elections in 2014 and the 2015 General Election.
The Manchester Gorton by-election can change things for the whole party - and we need you to come and help to make that happen. Look at what we achieved in Witney. We sent a message loud and clear that the Lib Dem fightback was on. We proved we could take a serious number of votes from the Conservatives, angry at their former party's backing for a hard Brexit.
New analysis published today shows that every state school in England will see budget cuts before 2020, even after new funding plans take effect. Tim will press the Schools Minister to rethink the government's plans at a meeting next week.
A sight that all of us will have seen since the Autumn is ambulances queuing at A & E and patients waiting on trolleys in hospital corridors. Some of us will have seen the situation at first hand, waiting with a relative or waiting for treatment. Bed occupancy has been dangerously high in many hospitals, with senior managers and doctors having to take decisions that, in some instances, are literally life or death. Upsetting as these images are, they show only the tip of a very large iceberg that is threatening to sink an NHS and the social care system unable to cope with demand.