A call has been made for National Express to lose its East Anglia rail franchise immediately, not to wait for two years. The Government announced that the NXEA franchise (affecting services from Chelmsford to London and to Norfolk) would end three years early. Stephen Robinson, Liberal Democrats Parliamentary candidate for Chelmsford, said: "This is a curious decision in danger of satisfying nobody.
So it has finally arrived, the first day of the Copenhagen Climate Change summit. We have been led to believe that it's going to fail, then it's going to succeed and then it will fail again, it's been quite a rollercoaster. This has really tested the participating countries' resolve to tackle this issue. This is made tougher because of the economic crisis which has caused hardships for so many people and so it's understandable that the economy is at the front of people's minds.
So it has finally arrived, the first day of the Copenhagen Climate Change summit. We have been led to believe that it's going to fail, then it's going to succeed and then it will fail again, it's been quite a rollercoaster. This has really tested the participating countries' resolve to tackle this issue. This is made tougher because of the economic crisis which has caused hardships for so many people and so it's understandable that the economy is at the front of people's minds.
"Liberal Democrats from all over the country came to make clear that for our part there is no issue of greater importance," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary.
Liberal Democrats in our neighbouring Redcar and Cleveland constituency are celebrating a terrific win in a Council By-Election. The Lib Dem Candidate Ann Wilson took an incredible 73.5% of the vote with an increase of 12.4% on the last election in the ward. She polled 1084 votes compared with Labour's 210 and the Tories' embarrassing 77.
Commenting on the start of the Copenhagen Climate Summit today Chesterfield MP Paul Holmes criticised the Labour Government's 'warm words' on the need to tackle climate change. Paul said:
