The Government's Counter-Terrorism Bill was being debated by MPs yesterday. Speaking at his monthly press conference Gordon Brown said the proposed changes would not mean a "blanket extension to 42 days" on the pre-charge limit for holding suspects.
Senior Lib Dems in Rochdale have slammed Mayor-elect Councillor Robin Parker for trying to get Councillor Jean Ashworth sacked from her job. The Lib Dems have reported Councillor Parker to the Standards Board of England under Sections 5 and 6 of the Local Authorities (Model Code of Conduct) Order 2007. Councillor Parker has been involved in a concerted effort to get Councillor Ashworth sacked from her position as a nurse at Rochdale Infirmary. He emailed health bosses citing the case of Karen Reissman, who was sacked last year for criticising mental health provision in Manchester.
Commenting on the news that Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is today licensed as a Foundation Trust, Oxford West and Abingdon Liberal Democrat MP, Dr Evan Harris, said:
Claire Darke, Liberal Democrat Candidate for Park Ward in May's local council elections, has welcomed the proposal for the re-opening a petrol station on Tettenhall Road near the Newbridge Inn. Since the former Esso petrol station closed more than two years ago residents of Clark Road, Larches Lane, Haden Hill and other roads feeding into Tettenhall Road have suffered from traffic backing up due to the over use of the existing Shell station at the corner of Clarke Road.
DELGA has welcomed the news that the new Equality and Human Rights Commission has given a commitment to prioritise legal cases in new areas of equality, including sexual orientation, to help start to build case law. DELGA Chair Jen Yockney said, "while winning legal rights to equality has been an important step, we now need to help bisexual, lesbian, gay and transgender people to understand the rights they now have, and to be able to act upon them. Test cases will send important signals both to LGBT people and to employers, businesses and wider society about how things have changed."
A Climate Change Motion was proposed by Councillor Peter Coley and seconded by fellow Lib Dem Councillor Roger Blackmore at last weeks full Council meeting:-
