Rochdale MP Paul Rowen is being consulted on his views on Incapacity Benefit by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, after it was revealed that Rochdale has one of the highest number of people on Incapacity Benefit in the UK.
A main road will be closed in both directions during the night over the next four weeks for resurfacing work.
At last week's County Council meeting the Tory-run County Council voted as part of their budget a cut to the funding of Bedfordshire¹s Music Service. This service is of importance to many children and adults within Bedfordshire.
Local Liberal Democrat campaigner and candidate for Heathtown, David Jack, has had his campaign in Heathtown endorsed and supported by one of the Liberal Democrat Leadership Contenders recently.
At the end of last year developers submitted a plan to Wolverhampton Council to build flats on open green space at the corner of Coleman Street and Gibbs Street. Wolverhampton Liberal Democrats are prominent in campaigns to protect public green space and in January the City's Planning Committee rejected the application. It now seems that the developers are exercising their right to appeal and want to try again to build on the site.
Dundee Liberal Democrat Councillor Fraser Macpherson today (Tuesday 21st February 2006) welcomed last week's progress report from the Scottish Executive on the modernisation process in Scotland's schools.
