As I wrote last year, I have very mixed feelings about seeing Liberal Democrat colleagues in honours lists. Many are great people who have done great work, both inside party politics and outside it too - and it's worth remembering that nearly all political roles pay very little, if anything, for all the time involved.
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Suffolk Coastal Liberal Democrats' trial book group comes to the end of its initial four-book run with a book published a year...
Message from Newcastle City Council's Highways maintenance : Current Forecasts are predicting low overnight temperatures with icy conditions up until around 9am tomorrow . All gritting routes will be treated at 17:00 today. Following this road surface temperatures are predicted to rise up to around 5 degrees by lunch time tomorrow and remain above zero for the rest of the day.
We need to talk about tax. The IMF's annual report on the UK economy recommends that taxes should be raised, in order to reduce the deficit further without cutting public investment and services. Philip Hammond, it is reported, would like to do so; but he is opposed by the ideological (and Eurosceptic) right of his own party, and by the influential group of free market think tanks who were cheerleaders for the Brexit campaign.
The Queen has in her Christmas speech welcomed new members into the royal family in 2018.