Cultural Olympiad Threatened By Lottery Diversion
Speaking in the House of Commons today, Liberal Democrat Culture and Heritage Spokesman Paul Holmes MP asked the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport:
21 May 2007
Government Fails To Listen On Post Offices
Liberal Democrats in Chesterfield have hit out at the government's failure to listen to the concerns of local people in over post office closures. The Government announced last week that they will continue with their plan to close at least 2,500 post offices across the country.
21 May 2007
Food agency wants folic acid in bread or flour
Ministers should order the mandatory fortification of food with folic acid, the Food Standards Agency said yesterday.
20 May 2007
Row over pupil's autism T-shirt
An autistic schoolboy was told he could not wear a T-shirt because its design was politically incorrect, his parents have said.
20 May 2007
Alzheimer's 'diet link' analysed
A study is being launched to investigate possible links between diet and Alzheimer's disease. Researchers at the Alzheimer's Society will look at the effects of fruit juice, red wine and oily fish on the incidence of mental illness.
20 May 2007
Parents to sue after son choked
The parents of a disabled man are to sue the owners of a care home where he choked to death on a pickled onion. Martin Hardy, who was 27 and from Clay Cross in Derbyshire, died in February at the Leonard Cheshire Home in Retford, Nottinghamshire.
20 May 2007