Tell us what you think - crime and safety in Suffolk Coastal
Suffolk Coastal Liberal Democrats want to hear your views on the issues that affect you in Suffolk Coastal, so we plan to run...
30 Mar 2016
National News
Andover for Europe campaign launch
Our local group Andover For Europe launched their campaign for the UK to remain in the European Union with a remarkable cross-party event last Saturday in the High Street. Local people turned out in numbers despite the rain to raise awareness and support the campaign for Britain to stay in the EU.
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29 Mar 2016
The new mobility scooter driving test
The government is to introduce a new mobility scooter driving test following a number of serious incidents on the public highway and inside retail shop premises. The new driving test will become mandatory on 1st January 2018 and will apply for all drivers of battery powered mobility scooters, irrespective of vehicle weight, speed rating or size.
29 Mar 2016
Decisions not to award PIP indefinitely or for a longer period can be appealed
An important new Upper Tribunal judgment has clarified the legal framework for deciding whether a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) award should be an indefinite award or for a fixed term. The judgment can be used by those disabled people who feel that they should be made an indefinite award of PIP as their daily living and/or mobility problems are unlikely to diminish. It can also be used by those disabled people who feel that they should have been made a longer fixed term PIP award again because their daily living and/or mobility problems are likely be more long standing. In UK/5459/2014, Upper Tribunal Judge Mitchell holds that the Welfare Reform Act 2012 provides a qualified requirement that PIP awards are to be for a fixed term. The statutory qualification to the requirement for fixed term awards is that a fixed term award would be "inappropriate". In deciding whether a fixed term would be inappropriate, a key consideration is the likely persistence of an individual's limiting conditions. A factor in f
29 Mar 2016
Priory Street Parking
Cllr Douglas McCall is concerned about plans that would reduce parking in Priory Street.
29 Mar 2016
Please try and check, what's so hard about that?
No wonder people in this country believe disabled people are inherently scroungers, receiving money for nothing, when we are greeted by headlines in national newspapers and on the TV, like the ones I have seen today, saying that our welfare benefits are to be cut by £150 per week in next week's Budget. Benefits that we receive for being sick and disabled. Benefits that are supposed to help put us on a level playing field with our non-disabled fellow citizens. Benefits that we ourselves, or our families, have contributed to by way of taxes and NI contributions. No wonder we are being vilified and thought of as living a pampered life of luxury when we're not. No wonder we get shouted at and abused in shops and on the streets by people who are also struggling in the gloom of austerity. No wonder when misinformation such as that I have seen and read today are being quoted on Social Media and by the media as being fact.
29 Mar 2016