A group of retired Gurkhas fighting for the right to settle in Britain have won their immigration test case at London's High Court. They were challenging immigration rules which said that those who retired from the British Army before 1997 did not have an automatic right to stay. The judgement could affect some 2,000 former Gurkhas who retired before 1997.
There is a petition to save the Wolverhampton-Walsall train service at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/walsallrail/
Local MP Tim Farron has today criticised proposed changes to mental health service provision in South Lakes as 'insufficient' to meet the needs of local people.
SingTao on 18 September 2008 published articles covering the Liberal Democrat Conference in Bournemouth [Chinese language] which you can read at http://tinyurl.com/3wwd9x . The article includes photos of the 'Managed Migration' fringe event jointly hosted by Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats and the Chinese Liberal Democrats 2nd birthday dinner with Lord Paddy Ashdown.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed news that EU is finally set to lift the age at which cattle are tested for BSE from 30 months to 48 months.
Papers before today's board meeting of the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust show that they are failing to meet basic targets following cuts to services at Kendal's Westmorland General Hospital.