Chris Took, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Woking has pledged to help eradicate the inequalities men with prostate cancer face after speaking with campaigners at the Liberal Democrat Party conference in Glasgow last month.
Mayor Dave Hodgson has welcomed the commencement this week of the demolition of the infamous former Charles King Ford buildings on the Broadway in Bedford Town Centre. The works precede development of the site as extra care housing (flats adapted to help enable older people to live independently).
Essex County Council's Cabinet Member for Highways (Cllr Rodney Bass) has hinted that MORE street lights in Essex could be switched off, despite mounting evidence of concern from the public and the police.
According to data just released by the independent Office for National Statistics, GDP increased by 0.7% in Q3 2014 compared with growth of 0.9% in Q2 2014. Change in GDP (gross domestic product) is the main indicator of economic growth. It is now nearly 10% higher than at the bottom of Labour's 2009 slump.
In the early hours of Thursday 2nd October 2014, long term Liberal activist Susan Annemarie Taylor (née Annemarie Susanne Goldschmidt) quietly passed away at the grand old age of 95 in Newcastle.
The RSA City Growth Commission's Devo Met report is an insightful contribution to the rapidly-moving issue of devolution to English city-regions. Liberal Democrats in the North East will be discussing the report and shaping our own policy proposals at our regional conference and AGM this weekend at Gateshead Quays.