The Lib Dem Leadership contest will be hotting up this week as the candidates travel up and down the country speaking to members. Candidates Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne and their respective campaign offices will be working hard to get their messages across to as many members as possible this week as ballot papers will be posted out to every member next week.
Yorkshire and the Humber MEP and Vice President of the European Parliament, Diana Wallis is to speak to members of the Scarborough and Whitby Liberal Democrats at their Constituency Dinner this week.
A sacked London park worker has been awarded record compensation of £550,000 because he was the victim of disability discrimination. The man, who suffers learning difficulties, was unfairly sacked from his job by Lambeth Service team, an employment tribunal in Croydon found.
A Devon college that offers vocational training for disabled people is cutting it staff numbers by nearly half in a streamlining move. The St Loye's Foundation in Exeter will go from 73 to 39 staff, with 34 potential redundancies between April and August 2008.
The team behind the Wallace and Gromit cartoons have unveiled six new characters - all with disabilities.
Up to 2,000 jobs could still be at risk at Remploy - the government-owned manufacturing firm for disabled workers - the BBC has learned. After unsuccessful negotiations with unions, the company is planning to go ahead with closing 28 factories.