Legal threat over disability plan
A Cornish council could be taken to court because it has not yet complied with some of the new disability discrimination laws.
20 May 2007
Lens technology aids dyslexics
Parents whose children have a learning disability will grasp at anything they feel will help their child, and many have spent hundreds of pounds kitting their children out with coloured lens spectacles. They look a bit odd, but children and teachers report dramatic changes in learning ability and concentration.
20 May 2007
Charities back Remploy closures
Trade unions say they are furious that six leading charities have backed plans to close dozens of factories which provide jobs for disabled people. Remploy, which has 5,000 disabled staff at 83 plants in the UK, says it has to cut costs.
20 May 2007
Dundee LibDems back calls for STV for parliamentary elections in Scotland
Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Saturday 19th May) backed calls by the Electoral Reform Society for the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system used in the Scottish council elections to be used in elections to the Scottish Parliament too.
19 May 2007
Government must back international Climate Change targets
Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Minister Martin Horwood has criticised the government after David Miliband refused to assure Parliament that the Government would back European demands, against the wishes of the United States, for binding targets to combat climate change. Mr Horwood had questioned Mr Miliband on the issue at Defra questions in the House of Commons yesterday.
19 May 2007
Cambell calls for Brown to face TV debate
A televised debate was held in the recent French presidential elections and this is an example to follow. Gordon Brown should take part in a series of head-to-head television debates with opposition leaders, Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell said that he wants a public showdown after the chancellor was elected Labour leader unopposed. The idea is backed by Conservative leader David Cameron, who says a TV debate would "bring politics to life".
19 May 2007