Wrap Up Manchester
Prominent campaigners in Greater Manchester have made a last minute appeal to the public for any spare coats to be donated to Human Appeal's 'Wrap Up Manchester' campaign before the 18th of November deadline.
17 Nov 2016
National News
SECRECY CLOAK THROWN OVER COUNCIL INSURANCE PLAN
A 'cloak of secrecy' has been thrown over a Devon council's insurance arrangements - even though it published a public report setting out what it spends, and its intention NOT to look for a better deal.
MW
17 Nov 2016
Brian Paddick writes on efforts to protect our civil liberties
On Wednesday the Investigatory Powers Bill overcame its final Parliamentary hurdle before becoming law. In the end the issue that held it up for a while was press regulation, not the powers of the state to intrude into our privacy. In line with party policy, agreed at Lib Dem conference, we tabled dozens of amendments on significant issues that went to the very heart of the bill - while trivial Labour and Government amendments simply tinkered around the edges. Despite the Government's best efforts to close down the debate, we fought hard and achieved close and careful line-by-line scrutiny of the bill in the House of Lords - something we were not given the opportunity to do in the Commons.
BP
17 Nov 2016
Liberal International’s African Reach
When Liberal International was founded in Oxford nearly 70 years ago it was very much a European affair. With the noble exception of Canada, Liberal parties and values were largely confined to northern Europe, but since then the picture has changed dramatically. As we in Britain lick our wounds from the double whammy of the Brexit vote and the triumph of Donald Trump in the United States let us take comfort from the fact that the Liberal family is growing worldwide. This was dramatically illustrated by the Liberal International (LI) Executive in Marrakesh, at which five new African parties - from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Madagascar, Senegal and Somalia - were welcomed into membership last weekend, which means that LI now has almost 50 member parties from Africa alone. The Marrakesh gathering was timed to coincide with COP22, the latest in a series of global conferences following up on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. So it was hardly surprising that environmental issues figured prominently in LI's d
JF
17 Nov 2016
VIDEO: Sarah Olney on Brexit
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17 Nov 2016
Robert Woodbridge - "I will continue to defend Swanley Rec"
Sir William Hart Dyke, who lived at Lullingstone Castle, Eynsford, last century donated St Mary's Recreation Ground, in Swanley,...
AB
16 Nov 2016