Mayor Dave Hodgson has launched a new petition to save maternity services at Bedford Hospital, following the announcement this week of a proposed downgrade, including the removal of all births from the hospital.
Mayor Dave Hodgson has slammed plans announced by the NHS Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes Healthcare Review for the downgrading of Bedford Hospital, including the removal of all births.
Cllr Nigel Porter, Liberal Democrat Councillor for Aylestone Ward recently wrote a letter to the Leicester Mercury supporting our Armed Forces in the City of Leicester countering a previous correspondents view to the local newspaper.
The NE is a manufacturing region and an exporting region. Many thousands of jobs (around 150,000) in the North East (and millions across the UK) depend on exporting to our European partners. Leaving the EU's single market, which is the world's largest free trade zone, would hit our trade and investment and increase unemployment.
Think tank says Brexit would hit poorer families hardest: A report from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research said that low-income households would be disproportionately affected by a Brexit, estimating that in a worst-case scenario, the households could receive £5,500 less per year in tax credits and benefit payments in 2020, reports Politico Morning Trade. The estimates assume that welfare spending would be slashed to adjust to the new economic climate: http://www.niesr.ac.uk/publications/eu-referendum-and-fiscal-impact-low-income-households#.V1qGYdIrLIV