SATs exams have "failed a generation of pupils" according to local MP Tim Farron who was commenting after it was revealed that at least one in eight pupils in South Lakeland may have been given the wrong test level in their primary school science SATs.
Local MP Tim Farron is calling on Cumbria Primary Care Trust (PCT) to continue funding a crucial service supporting over a hundred local mothers. The work is under of threat of closure early next year unless vital funding can be found, and seven specialist staff will be made redundant.
Nick Perry, the Lib Dem parliamentary campaigner for Hastings & Rye, has slammed Hastings Borough Council for making announcements about the Pier in the purdah period before the St Helens Ward by-election, the polling day for which is 10 December.
Only the Liberal Democrats will scrap tuition fees, Newcastle campaigner Ron Beadle will tell students this week.
Colin Ross, the Chair of the Wolverhampton South West Liberal Democrats will have his beard cut throat razored off for charity at the end of November.
The Home Office paid almost £500m to police forces to plug a gap in their pension funds last year, more than double the amount it paid just two years ago.