Liberal Democrats leading campaign to end FGM – Baker and Featherstone
Measures include making it mandatory for all NHS acute hospitals to provide information on patients who have suffered or are at risk of suffering FGM.
12 Feb 2014
National News
Council budget to go to Full Council
Wiltshire Council is proposing no increase to its council tax for the fourth year running thanks to the government 'freeze' grant.
12 Feb 2014
Opinion: Liberal Democrats must let our values define our approach to mental health #timetotalk
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist," Kevin Spacey tells us, and it's a bit like that with depression too. It's so insidious precisely because it tries to convince you it isn't really there, that these black thoughts and difficult days are all there is for you, and that this entirely your own fault.
11 Feb 2014
Opinion: Confessions of a manic depressive #timetotalk
After hearing/reading a lot of negative things about people with mental health issues recently first I got angry, then I got writing. This is what I came up with:
11 Feb 2014
Disabled passengers say no to Tube staff cuts
Disabled and older transport users took action on Thursday against Transport for London's threats to cut 950 members of staff from London Underground.
11 Feb 2014
Danny Alexander MP, key note speaker at Lunar New Year Dinner
Thanks to Euro Candidate Jonathan Fryer for his blog on our Lunar New Year Dinner held on 11 February at the New Loon Fung Restaurant with over 140 guests:
JF
11 Feb 2014