Dundee East Liberal Democrat parliamentary spokesperson Dr Clive Sneddon said today (Thursday 26th October) that he is pleased that Dundee's record on community harmony is better than in some parts of the UK, but deplores the recent attempts by both Tony Blair's New Labour Party and the Conservative Shadow Home Secretary to heighten community tensions in Britain.
Paul Holmes, Liberal Democrat MP for Chesterfield is joining forces with Breast Cancer Campaign in its award winning 'wear it pink' day on Friday 27 October 2006 as part of breast cancer awareness month. Paul Holmes MP said: "Every year over 13,000 people in the UK die from breast cancer. Some of them will be from my constituency of Chesterfield and a close member of my family has been treated for the disease. "Please encourage your family and friends to support 'wear it pink' day. It's great fun and the money raised will go towards valuable breast cancer research."
Cambridgeshire Lib Dems have reacted in anger to the news that Cambridgeshire County Council is backing out of long-awaited traffic schemes all over the County.
Speaking in the County Council last week, Liberal Democrat Councillor for Brampton and Kimbolton Peter Downes, stressed the serious traffic consequences on moving medical services from Hinchingbrooke Hospital to Addenbrooke's.
Cambridgeshire Lib Dems have today successfully managed to persuade the County Council to release some details of their controversial cuts to services across the County. Lib Dems have been campaigning for this information to be made public and would still like the full details to be publicly available.
Last week's failure of the Tory and Labour parties to support a Liberal Democrat parliamentary motion calling for a greener tax system has been condemned by Dundee LibDem local party Convener Raymond Lawrie.
