Newcastle Liberal Democrats have welcomed a call by Lib Dem Shadow Chancellor Vince Cable to allow councils to acquire new houses standing unsold by house builders.
Local MP Tim Farron has called upon the Government to toughen its regulations on meat labelling to ensure the public is no longer misled at the meat counter.
Wolverhampton South West's Labour MP Rob Marris has been attacked by the Liberal Democrats for helping to vote down proposals for auditing of auditing of all MPs' expenses.
Post Office Ltd has announced that eight local branches in Bedford Borough are to close as part of the Labour Government's savage cull of 2,500 branches nationwide. The list of branches to be closed has changed slightly from the one released accidentally due to an internet blunder in November last year, with the branch situated in the Budgens store on Kimbolton Road reprieved but with the Stewartby and 193 Goldington Road (Junction with Polhill/Newnham Avenue) branches added.
The "EAT" outlet at the troubled Stop24 service area at J11 of the M20 closed on Friday 4th July, causing a number of redundancies. The outlet's loss comes after the closure of "Muffinbreak" shortly after the opening of the service area, and is being blamed on lack of trade and poor users numbers to the service area.
The post office situated in the Budgens store on Kimbolton Road in Bedford is not amongst the list of branch closures released today, despite having been included in the list published accidentally last year in an internet blunder. It is the only branch in Bedford Borough that has been removed from the original closures list. De Parys Lib Dems have led an intensive campaign to save the branch, in conjunction with post office staff and unions CWU and Unite.
