Dundee East Liberal Democrat parliamentary spokesperson Dr Clive Sneddon has today (Tuesday 3rd October) warned of the continuing dangers to Dundee's post offices posed by Tony Blair's New Labour Government.
Shepway MEP Sharon Bowles has written to Eurostar to press them to retain services from Ashford following the announcement that services from the station will be slashed. Eurostar have announced that the Ashford to Brussels service would be cut completely whilst the number of trains from Ashford to Paris will fall to three.
Allan Petrie, editor of the Dundee Liberal Democrat "East End FOCUS" has today (Tuesday 3rd October) launched the on-line edition of a FOCUS Special covering the Pitkerro, Happyhillock and Douglas areas.
Local MP Tim Farron has demanded a meeting with Secretary of State for Transport, Douglas Alexander, as he steps up his campaign against cuts to rail services in the North West. As part of the negotiations for the new Cross Country franchise, the Department for Transport is proposing terminating all services from the North West to the South West and South coast at Birmingham and reducing the number of services from the Windermere and Furness branch lines to Manchester Airport.
A charity has criticised George Osborne after he appeared to suggest Gordon Brown could be "faintly autistic".
Commenting on George Osborne's remarks about Gordon Brown at the Conservative party conference, Chief of Staff to Sir Menzies Campbell, Norman Lamb MP said:
