Sedbergh Pupil Wins Christmas Card Competition
Elsie Woof, a Sedbergh Primary School student, has won 1st Prize in Tim Farron's Christmas Card Competition.
1 Dec 2015
National News
Calls for local small businesses support ahead of Small Business Saturday
Local opposition councillors have set out the Lib Dems’ five point plan to help small businesses ahead of Small Business Saturday...
HLD
1 Dec 2015
Saving the Future: Paris 2015 and the UNFCCC negotiations begin without a Libdem Secretary of State at their heart
For the first time in five years, the UNFCCC negotiations that are about to start in Paris will have an EU delegation without a UK Libdem secretary of state at the fore. Chris Huhne and Ed Davey are credited with significant impact in previous meetings, coming from a Green Liberal Democrat tradition of coalition building and intelligent compromise with creative, practical solutions.
SO
1 Dec 2015
Tim Farron's Message for World AIDS Day
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron MP has released a video for World AIDS Day with the National AIDS Trust. In it, he says:
1 Dec 2015
Norman Lamb calls for access to HIV prevention drug Truvada, or Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Health, said: "The fact that more than 6,000 more people became infected with HIV in Britain in 2013 shows that our efforts to combat the virus are clearly not working.
1 Dec 2015
Our new Executive committee
Last week we held our AGM and North-east Essex Liberal Democrats have new officers and Executive Committee members. Well, many are the same - I was re-elected Chair, Robert Taylor Treasurer and Pam Candler Membership Secretary - but Rosemary Smith stood down as Secretary, being unanimously elected as our President instead, and John Candler stood down as Vice-chair.Cllr Gary Scott returns as Vice-chair and a new member - Tom Stevenson - was elected as our Secretary. Another new member (definition - joined since the general election ), Rain Welham-Cobb, has also joined the Executive Committee. Young people are definitely better represented.
SB
30 Nov 2015