Rochdale MP Paul Rowen is stepping up the pressure on the government after figures recently released showed that 16 pubs across Rochdale have been forced into closure since June 2005. The figures also indicated that an average of 35 pubs a week across Britain are currently closing their doors to the community.
The Liberal Democrat leader tells his party conference that it will be a long, slow climb out of recession but his party offers hope for the future.
A Facebook Group "Register your disgust at John Redwood's 'date rape' comments" has been set up after the Conservative MP for Wokingham made comments about the Government's approach to date rape in his web-log.
Anyone who attended the recent Town Hall meeting about Epsom Hospital, hoping to hear a clear statement about its future, came away disappointed. There was very little hard news - but at least none of it was bad.
The Liberal Democrat leader tells his party conference that it will be a long, slow climb out of recession but his party offers hope for the future
London MEP Sarah Ludford, Liberal Democrat European justice & human rights spokeswoman, has for the third time pushed the European Commission, as the watchdog of compliance with EU laws, to challenge the UK's record in implementing a directive from 2000.
