A planning application has gone in to Wiltshire Council for a range of predators to be scattered around the courtyard area at Longleat. They range from crocodile to angler fish and great white shark to harpy eagle, as well as a giant venus fly trap.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron is calling for a new deal for upland farmers to reward them for their contribution to the £3bn tourism economy in Cumbria.
The government has agreed to bring forward plans to review the current rules concerning the priority of pensioners following pressure from the Liberal Democrats.
Hard cases make bad laws, but we were profoundly struck today by the father of a person with a mental illness telling the story of how his daughter, on the day of her 18th birthday, was removed from a specialist children's facility and ended up in an adult one 400 miles from home. With any other illness or condition, this would have caused a national uproar at the time. The fact that it didn't shows that public opinion - through the media - is still not being engaged enough.
Residents living in the flats above a row of shops in Acocks Green Village are having to pick their way through piles of dumped rubbish to get to their homes.
Welcome to the latest in my little explainer video series, trying to demystify a little some of the things the Liberal Democrats get up to: how and why we do what we do.