22 May 2016
National News
Testing, testing, testing! Two New Footpaths are Tried Out by Local Ramblers
Getting exercise and keeping fit is an excellent way to maintain good health - and the photographs show a group of local residents doing just that.
22 May 2016
Testing, testing, testing! Two New Footpaths are Tried Out by Local Ramblers
Getting exercise and keeping fit is an excellent way to maintain good health - and the photographs show a group of local residents doing just that.
22 May 2016
GLD Chair Simon Oliver Resigns
The following has been received from the GLD Chair, Simon Oliver:
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22 May 2016
Labour fail to appoint any Darwen Councillors to Executive positions
Liberal Democrats have criticised the ruling Labour Group on Blackburn with Darwen Council for failing to appoint any of their Darwen Labour Councillors to Executive positions. The Executive makes most of the important decisions affected the borough and many of the decisions are made solely by an individual Executive Member (Portfolio Holder). The responsibilities of each portfolio holder can be seen here.
22 May 2016
Norman Lamb: My sister's suicide and son's mental health problems made me determined to push for change
Norman Lamb is one of Britain's most tireless mental health campaigners, an MP who doesn't just pay lip service to this most important of subjects - unlike so many other politicians. I meet the Liberal Democrat MP for North Norfolk in his office in Portcullis House, where he has dashed from a meeting in Bedfordshire with CHUMS, a charity that offers care for young children with mental health difficulties. Lamb may no longer be a health minister, but he remains a passionate crusader on behalf of the mentally ill - he was pleased that David Cameron made a speech on the subject in February, but as Lamb says, "there is a massive gap between the rhetoric and the reality." Promises broken. Commitments cast aside.
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22 May 2016