Kent Highways are warning that roads are likely to become icy across Kent this evening and into the morning. Although gritters will treat primary routes, drivers and pedestrians should watch out for ice.
A disabled woman in a Dorset care home says the government's scrapping of mobility payments will have a "devastating impact" on her life. From October 2012, the £49.50 a week "mobility component" of the Disability Living Allowance, for some care home residents and children, will be axed.
More than £500m could be saved if mental health services in England were run more efficiently, a report says. Better community support, cutting unnecessary hospital stays and reducing sickness absence can all help cut costs, say policy experts.
Marking World AIDS Day, Liberal Democrat party president-elect Tim Farron MP boarded the Stop AIDS Campaign bus outside Parliament this week to show his support for the effort to bring an end to children being born with HIV by 2015. Tim met with campaigners from the Stop AIDS Campaign and joined them in their call for the government to lead the world in the effort to deliver an AIDS-free generation by giving its fair share to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
Cllr Peter Phillips, snowed in at Frogs Gutter, anxiously awaited escape to an important hospital appointment.
Kent County Council have issued a short video advising on how to safely clear snow from pavements. This video, and more advice and links to the Government's Snow Code and Kent's own advice on their work on clearing snow can now been seen at www.prater.org.uk/snowcode/
