Dundee City Council Finance Convener Cllr Fraser Macpherson today (Wednesday 8th March) welcomed news that action by Dundee City Council's finance department helped claw back more than £222,000 in benefit overpayments during a nine-month period last year.
West End Dundee City Councillor Fraser Macpherson has congratulated the Al-Maktoum Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies for its most recent initiative - an Open Day taking place on Saturday 18th March, to enable all in the local community to visit the Institute and see what the Institute is all about.
The new leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Menzies Campbell has today promoted local MP Tim Farron to become his first Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS). As Sir Menzies' PPS, Tim will be responsible for ensuring that Sir Menzies is kept well informed of backbench opinion and for advising him on current developments within the Parliamentary Party at Westminster.
Tim Farron has today vowed to keep up the pressure on the Prime Minister after the Prime Minister failed to answer the question Tim put to him during Prime Ministers Questions. Tim asked the Prime Minister to act urgently to stop shared ownership properties from being entirely bought out, a process which is eroding the stock of affordable houses in the South Lakes.
Chelmsford Lib Dems have congratulated Ming Campbell on his election as the new leader of the Liberal Democrats. He has pledged to lead the party back towards government at the next general election. He said it was a victory, not just for him, but for all Liberal Democrats because in the last few weeks they had once again confounded the critics and commentators who once again wrote them off by winning in Dunfermline and West Fife.
Cllr Fraser Macpherson has produced his March 2006 update for next week's West End Community Council meeting. The meeting is taking place on Tuesday 14th March (further details are available at www.wecc.org.uk)