Victory for Liberal Democrats as ID cards to be scrapped within 100 days
The Coalition Government today announced that ID cards are to be scrapped for British citizens within 100 days.
28 May 2010
National News
Petitions to the County Council
The County Council's Conservative administration has recently decided to allow members of the public to submit petitions at meetings of the whole Council, not just at committee meetings. This is something that the Liberal Democrat group at County Hall have requested many times in order to open up the Council, but which until now has always been refused by the Conservative administration, even as recently as March this year.
28 May 2010
LIB DEM LANDSLIDE IN KENDAL ELECTION
Liberal Democrats are celebrating after they won all 24 seats in Today's deferred Kendal Town Council Elections - gaining three seats from the Labour, re-gaining one from the Green's and one from an independent.
28 May 2010
Welfare Reforms set out by Duncan Smith
Britain's welfare system is "trapping" poor people in poverty, the work and pensions secretary said as he unveiled plans for far-reaching reforms. Iain Duncan Smith wants to ensure benefit claimants are not made worse off by working and make state support conditional on willingness to work. He said the current benefits system was "broken" and unaffordable.
27 May 2010
People with long term conditions have to wait for better financial news for free prescriptions.
Proposals to give free prescriptions to people in England with long-term conditions have been put on hold due to financial pressures on the NHS. Health minister Simon Burns said a decision on prescription charges and exemptions cannot be made before the spending review due in the autumn.
27 May 2010
Man who became disabled accepts settlement
A man from Birmingham left permanently in a wheelchair and in pain after spinal surgery has accepted a six-figure out-of-court settlement. Gerald Morgan, 60, was thrown from his chair by a spasm after an operation at the Royal London Hospital in 2004. He had broken his pelvis and hip - but this was not diagnosed until six months after when they were untreatable.
27 May 2010