The government has been accused of dragging its heels over efforts to extend blue badges for disabled drivers to carers of people with autism. Lib Dem peer Lord Clement-Jones said a report had recommended the move in 2002, yet nothing had been done.
Dundee West LibDem parliamentary candidate Michael Charlton today (Wednesday 25th April) announced the party's plans for improving safety and cutting crime with 1,000 additional community police officers.
Ahead of the local elections on May 3rd, Liberal Democrats in Chesterfield are asking, "Will the government publish their post offices hit list?"
An author who "wrote herself" out of a psychiatric hospital has been nominated for the Orange Prize for new writers.
US scientists have opened the way for the development of a "bionic eye". They used electrodes to stimulate an area of the brain that processes visual information, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported.
An experimental drug may be able to compensate for the genetic error responsible for some cases of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, US scientists hope. In rodents, the drug PTC124 was able to restore the muscle function normally lost in this disease, Nature reports. Trials have already begun in humans, although the results will take years. The drug works by allowing cells to read through certain mistakes in the genetic code for a protein - dystrophin - missing in 15% of patients with DMD.
