Nick Clegg: Lib Dems should help our neighbour It is interesting to note that in his comments Nick Clegg has highlighted the importance in making up his mind of the fact that France asked for help - as an internationalist and a pro-European, responding to a request for help from a European neighbour naturally follows:
The NHS will start denying people with hearing problems access to hearing aids for the first time from Thursday in a controversial move that critics claim will worsen sufferers' social isolation. The GP-led NHS clinical commissioning group in North Staffordshire is taking the unprecedented step of ceasing to provide free hearing aids to mainly elderly people in its area with mild hearing loss.
Tim Farron has now published a detailed explanation of the party's stance: When the government asked MPs to support military action in Syria against Assad in 2013, I refused to provide that support. I was not convinced our intervention would be effective, nor that it was fully backed by a diplomatic effort to establish a lasting peace, nor would it prevent more suffering than it caused.
A charity for disabled people have said they are "disappointed" after the plans for a station redevelopment were revealed to not include step-free access.
Pastoral care and pupil matters | PSHE | Teaching ideas and resources | There is a danger that the stress experienced by school staff could be passed on to their students, writes one mental health expert Some things, it is said, cannot be taught. I actually happen to believe that most things can be taught, or at least enhanced through the act of teaching, but it would be better if some things didn't need to be.
The Green Party has slammed the government's decision to axe a crucial fund that helps disabled people stand for election.