After a long campaign last summer US president Bush signed a law that promised to remove the ban on non-US citizens living with HIV travelling to the US. The arrangements put in place however only allow for a temporary visa of 30 days to be issued under the condition that the HIV positive person's activities while in the US do not present a risk to public health.
The Q&A below answers questions posed by Your Shepway newspaper (www.yourshepway.co.uk) by James Alexandre from the paper. And yes, Kurt Cobain really DID touch my hand (Reading Festival, 1992).
The Hythe West by-elections were well and truly overdue. We had to wait a long time for the Conservatives, as a body, to acknowledge the wishes of the residents in wanting their absent Councillors to step down. Indeed, our Conservative MP didn't attempt to speed this matter along either.
Barnet Liberal Democrats' last ditch effort to save the Sheltered Housing Service floundered this evening (18 June) on the Chairman of the Business Management Overview and Scrutiny sub Committee's casting vote. Cllr Jack Cohen, leader of Barnet Liberal Democrats, had called in the cabinet decision to scrap the Sheltered Housing Warden Service. Cllr Cohen, who had forced Conservative Cabinet Member Richard Cornelius to justify the proposed cuts, said he was bitterly disappointed with the outcome.
Animal-loving Lib Dem councillor Karen Chilvers has put an idea to the council which aims to quickly reunite lost dogs with their owners.
Lib Dem Leader Cllr David Kendall has called on Cllr Louise Mckinlay, Leader of the Council, to join him and Cllr Mike Le Surf, Leader of the Labour group, on a Leaders Road show around the Borough.
