Liz Lynne, the West Midlands Euro MP and anti- trafficking campaigner, has strongly welcomed news that the European Commission is to draft Europe- wide legislation aimed at tackling the traffic of human beings.
A LONG-AWAITED project aiming to create a community hub in Dedworth has received a major blow.
David Wedgwood in his letter (BFP 20th March) in referring to the EU finding for rural business and start ups in the villages around Bury St Edmunds stated 'why on earth we have to crawl to the EU to get some of our money back.' Emotive words indeed. They are also the language of failure when rational argument has failed.
It's over now - aside from the blisters and memories.
Euro MP Liz Lynne and the West Midlands Liberal Democrats launched their European Election campaign at the regional party's spring conference held in Wolverhampton last Saturday.
Blackburn Labour MP and former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has rejected Blackburn Council's motion asking for an Arms' Ban on Israel. The Liberal Democrat proposal, which received all-party support at a recent Council Meeting, called on Jack Straw to use his influence to ask the Cabinet to introduce such a ban.