Politics becoming too confrontational
Dear Sir,
DPH
22 Jun 2017
Dear Sir,
Dear Sir,
The Lib Dem Press Office has issued a veritable storm of press releases in response to the Queen's Speech today. Here's a round-up of what our key figures said about their areas of expertise. Tim Farron looked at the whole speech and was unimpressed:
In February, as I was writing an earlier article in this series, construction workers on a site near Frankfurt airport found an unexploded bomb from the Second World War. Motorway and railway connections to the airport had to be interrupted while the bomb was being defused. In April, on the eve of the Boat Race, a similar incident occurred in London near Putney Bridge. Last month (May) saw further cases in Hannover (with 50,000 people needing to be evacuated), Gießen 70 km north of Frankfurt and again in Frankfurt itself.
The non-emergency patient transport service run by Arriva has been criticised by the Bradford Area Seniors Forum at its recent meeting in Holt. Here's an extract from their report:
Sticky wicket for Newcastle council as offer of 6 free artificial pitches is snubbed Opposition Liberal Democrats councillors in Newcastle have called on the city council to explain why it has declined to take up an offer of six new artificial cricket strips for the city's parks and recreation areas. The Lib Dems have obtained information which shows the council's leisure services team declined to take up an offer of funding from the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) for up to six artificial wickets to be provided in local parks and open spaces, together with maintenance support for 5 years and cricket equipment, to a value of £72,000. Correspondence between the council and cricket officials earlier this month reveals that council officers responded that "we are not in a position currently to do this" and suggested that this offer "has not had any priority on [its] work programme" due to the council concentrating on transferring parks and recreation areas to a new trust. The council also appears to hav