Four prisoners are walking out of prisons without authorisation every day, new figures revealed today by the Liberal Democrats show. Over 13,500 prisoners have escaped, absconded or disappeared while on temporary release in the last 10 years.
Dundee West End & City Centre Liberal Democrat councillor, Fraser Macpherson, is to meet David Mortimer, Head of Public Affairs at Digital UK in London, following the Tay Bridges Ward councillor raising the issue of lack of access to Freeview television services for many of his constituents in Dundee's West End and City Centre.
Without warning, very early on the Saturday morning immediately after the District Council elections ,councillors Peter Spencer and Malcolm Woollard were summoned by residents in Hornbeam Road and Chestnut Avenue to witness the new owner of a triangle of land in Buckhurst Hill destroy trees and wildlife on a site previously owned by the Charles S French Charitable Trust.
Anti-ID Card campaigners have highlighted two separate issues this week which increase fears for the forthcoming Identity Card scheme. The identities of 13,000 civil servants have been stolen from Department of Work and Pensions databases by organised criminals, and around 600,000 documents have been reported lost or stolen by the Identity and Passport Service.
Dundee Liberal Democrats have welcomed the launch of the party's green taxation paper called "The Green Switch" which is aimed at curbing carbon emissions and halting global warming.
Dundee City Council Liberal Democrat Finance Convener Cllr Fraser Macpherson today (Friday 19th May) said he had received strong feedback from his constituents in the City's West End and this was "unanimously against" the NHS Tayside proposals to increase parking charges at Ninewells Hospital.
