National Liberal Democrat News - East Riding Liberal Democrats

Liberal Democrats to give the public a say on Lords Reform

Liberal Democrat Peers are encouraging members of the public to have their say on reform of the House of Lords. The Peers, including Lib Dem Lords Leader Tom McNally, and Joan Walmsley, asked the public to write down their views and place them in a ballot box outside Parliament during today's debate on reform of the Upper Chamber. They are also launching their own consultation website, which will be found at www.lordsreformvote.org

19 Mar 2007

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Special needs worry over schools

Teachers in mainstream schools do not expect as much of children with special needs as their counterparts in special schools, new research has suggested. The Strathclyde University study has raised concerns the pupils may not be doing as well as they could.

19 Mar 2007

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Fear centre 'shrinks' in autism

A part of the brain associated with emotional learning and fear shrinks in people with autism, research suggests. Teenagers and young men with autism in the study who had the most severe social impairment were found to have smaller than normal amygdalae. The researchers from the University of Wisconsin suggested the amygdalae may shrink due to chronic stress caused by social fear in childhood. The study was published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

19 Mar 2007

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Green Electricity

The Lib Dem led city council is saving money as well as saving the planet thanks to a deal it's made on buying 'green' electricity.

19 Mar 2007

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Lib Dems Campaign to Save Aldershot Road Allotments

Councillor Fiona White, Lib Dem Group Leader (Guildford Borough Council) wrote to the Surrey Advertiser concerning the Aldershot Road Allotments on the 18th March 2007.

18 Mar 2007

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European Working Group

A new working group, which includes our chair Ed Featherstone, has been set up to produce a consultation paper for Autumn Federal Conference. (You will shortly have the opportunity to give your comments.) The remit says, "Much has happened in Europe since the party last reviewed policy in 'The Future of Europe' (policy paper 56) in 2003: there has been a substantial enlargement of the European Union, significant uncertainty about its institutional arrangements following signature of the constitutional treaty and growing challenges (such as climate change, globalisation, migration, criminality and human rights abuses) in many of the policy areas in which the EU operates.

18 Mar 2007

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