The Department of Work and Pensions has published a public consultation on Disability Living Allowance reform, seeking views on the Government's proposals to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) with a new benefit - Personal Independence Payment.
A decision by the Business Minister Vince Cable to end Post Office closure programmes has been welcomed by Liberal Democrats in Wolverhampton
Most of the work on roads and pavements in Blaklaw ward programmed for this year is underway or complete and Philip Lower and Gerry Keating, your Blakelaw ward Lib Dem councillors, are looking at next year's schemes in order of priority.
Liberal Democrats in Windsor are backing the campaign to save Maidenhead's "Bridge That Gap Cafe" at the Royal Borough's Council headquarters from Conservative plans to relocate it out of sight to a social services building. The project in which adults with learning difficulties run the cafe is aimed at helping greater integration into the wider community and is popular with both the adults involved and visitors and staff at the Town Hall.
New figures highlighted by Tim Farron have shown the drop in the number of patients in Cumbria with access to an NHS dentist.
The Liberal Democrat Group on Leicestershire County Council is asking residents to help identify a list of Council services that should be protected from budget cuts currently being planned by the Conservative Administration.