On the eve of his 20th anniversary Liberal Democrat MP Matthew Taylor has today announced that, after two decades in the Truro & St Austell seat, he will not be fighting the next General Election. Mr Taylor has announced that he will be standing down in order to devote himself to his family, following the birth of his son Arthur last November.
Kent Police report that a nationwide campaign to combat drink driving Kent has seen arrest figures for drink driving, and deaths due to drink driving, fall during December 2006 compared to the same period in 2005.
The BBC report that the 12-year-old girl who disappeared from her school in Saltwood has been found "safe and well". Jasmine Thomson, from Etchinghill, failed to return home after leaving Brockhill Park School in Saltwood at 11.30 am on Tuesday.
A model of the planned new school to replace Taylor Road Primary School will be on display at the school from today for public consultation.
The campaign to save the Royal Victoria Hospital in Folkestone has been taken to Westminster. Local Lib Dems Peter Carroll. Tom McNeice and Darren Briddock joined a specially called lobby of Parliament on Tuesday 16th Jan at the House of Commons.
A British disability charity is trying to ensure that an "Ashley X case" could not happen to a child in the UK. Ashley is the American child who has been medically "frozen in time" to stop her body developing to adult size.
