The world's leading experts on body image issues have today sent a paper to UK advertising authorities condemning the use of ultra-thin, digitally altered women in adverts, and backing the Liberal Democrats' campaign to curb harmful airbrushing.
The 20th anniversary of the popular revolution which led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the extension of democracy to much of Eastern Europe were remembered at a special session of the European Parliament yesterday.
A furious row has erupted between the Lib Dems and Labour in Newcastle.
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen was joined in Parliament alongside a Rochdale delegation led by Councillor Jean Ashworth to support the ''No Recourse' No Safety Event run by Amnesty International.'
Heywood and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin has been accused of putting party politics before local pension holders after refusing to support those who lost their savings when pension company Equitable Life went bust.
Lib Dem councillors who have been campaigning alongside local residents to get the borough council to act on the future of Horton Chapel have welcomed a decision made at a meeting of the council's Strategy & Resources Committee in November.