Banff and Buchan's Liberal Democrat candidate Galen Milne is supporting his party's demands to bring the Bank of Scotland home again. He has welcomed his Scottish leader Tavish Scott's call in the wake of Chancellor Alistair Darling's recent announcement that the government intends to create three new High Street banking chains by 2015 by selling off parts of Lloyds, RBS and Northern Rock.
Hastings & Rye Liberal Democrats have selected John Tunbridge to be their candidate in the forthcoming by-election in St Helens ward on 10 December. The selection meeting was held on Tuesday night at the Lib Dem Centre in London Road, St Leonards.
DELGA are delighted at reports of US President Barack Obama announcing that the travel ban against people infected with HIV travelling to the USA will be overturned early next year. The travel ban has been in place for over 20 years.
Talk about the future of Mid Sussex often leads to discussion of the problems of congestion in our towns, particularly around peak travel periods. Any future plans for new housing need to incorporate specific traffic reduction measures and provisions to ensure that developers suffer real penalties if such measures are not provided as agreed.
Wolverhampton City Council has tonight passed the Liberal Democrat motion and joined the 10:10 campaign. The motion was submitted by Councillors Robin Lawrence and Claire Darke.
Transport Minister Sadiq Khan wrote to Paul Holmes today accepting that Chesterfield HAD lost out badly under the Government's National Concessionary Bus Fares Scheme and offering to meet Paul to discuss this.
