"A year ago, the County Council was working on a 'road safety' scheme for the Epping New Road from the City Limits roundabout to the Warren Wood pub. Only Loughton County Councillors were consulted about the proposals," says Buckhurst Hill Councillor Ann Haigh.
West Chelmsford Lib Dem Candidate Stephen Robinson welcomes the Lib Dem stand against the Iraq War. He said, "We have chosen not to make an early issue of this because we stand for many more policies than just the anti-Iraq war sentiment, but, like many people in Britain, we are outraged at being railroaded into war by Tony Blair."
Voters in North Wiltshire were treated to a lively debate on BBC Radio Wiltshire on Monday morning. However, despite the invitation being open to all candidates in North Wiltshire the Tory candidate, James Gray, did not attend the event. As such the Tories were unable to put out the negative message they have been attempting to convey and heard from the only real candidate for North Wiltshire, Paul Fox.
The Conservatives aren't fit to govern this country, given their spineless behaviour over the Iraq invasion, says Tania Exley-Moore, the Liberal Democrat candidate for Scarborough and Whitby.
Liberal Democrat Leader Charles Kennedy, with Sir Menzies Campbell and Shirley Williams, have today called for a full public inquiry into the way the Prime Minister took the country to war, along the lines of the Franks Inquiry after the Falklands War. This should be an inquiry that examines the full political, legal and strategic advice given to the Ministers before the war, and the decisions taken on the basis of that advice.
The Liberal Democrat Leader, Rt Hon Charles Kennedy has launched new plans for new-style sentences that give courts a tougher, more challenging alternative to prison for non-violent offenders.
