Christine McHugh was joined by Bedford's Lib Dem MEP, Andrew Duff in Silver Street on Saturday, asking shoppers to sign the petition to "Save Bedford Hospital" from the well publicised cuts.
Government plans to give charities and private companies the power to cut benefits have "set alarm bells ringing" across the disability world.
Research into a vaccine for Alzheimer's disease, which was stopped early on safety grounds, is to be resurrected. It was designed to reverse the disease's progression by clearing the beta amyloid protein that causes the disease.
A decision by a Derby hospital to charge disabled patients for parking has been branded a "monstrous tax on the sick" by disability campaigners.
In a speech to the National Family and Parenting Institute today, Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Menzies Campbell said policies can only be family friendly when they put support, care and value for individuals at their heart, describing this as the Ethic of Care. He outlined Liberal Democrat policies that put ethic of care into practice by: helping to strengthen family relationships; coping with family breakdown; and raising the standard of childcare.
Powers to decide where new nuclear power stations should be built are set to be taken out of the hands of local communities if new government proposals are accepted.
