Tories told: come clean on budget
CALLS have been made for Conservatives to come clean about cuts in next year's budget.
8 Nov 2009
National News
Streetlighting Repairs
Surrey Highways are currently not repairing street lights except in the most urgent cases. A new PFI street lighting contract is expected to start early next year, which will involve replacing 80% of the existing lamp columns, so they are not spending money on repairing columns that will be replaced.
7 Nov 2009
Barnet Lib Dems slam the cut in Concessionary Fares- Londoners now need to fork out more for the Freedom pass
Barnet Lib Dems have reacted angrily to news that the concessionary fares scheme in London will be cut by £29m this coming year.
7 Nov 2009
MEP highlights cancer death of brave Black Country soldier for International Day of Action Against Uranium Weapons
Wolverhampton's Liberal Democrat Euro MP Liz Lynne has backed the International Day of Action Against Uranium Weapons by repeating her call for the UK and other EU states to ban Depleted Uranium weapons.
7 Nov 2009
Ludovic Kennedy
HSLD is sad to learn of the death of Ludovic Kennedy at the age of 89. He was both a committed secularist and a prominent Liberal Democrat campaigner. He first came to public notice as a campaigning journalist. He made a huge contribution towards the abolition of the death penalty in Britain through his rigorous investigations into miscarriages of justice, particularly the case of Timothy Evans - who was wrongly hanged for the murder of his wife at 10 Rillington Place.
7 Nov 2009
Tories yet to explain how they would close gap between pupils - Laws
Commenting on Michael Gove's speech on Tory education aims, Liberal Democrat Shadow Schools Secretary, David Laws said:
6 Nov 2009