A Bedford Borough Council clean-up operation has seen 40 tons of leaves cleared from the streets over recent weeks, with the leaves being composted, rather than sent to landfill, for the first time following the intervention of Mayor Dave Hodgson.
Liberal Democrats at North Yorkshire are appalled that improving gypsy and traveller sites across the County will cost more than twice as much as the Tory Council originally estimated.
Bedford Borough Council is set to take radical action to tackle climate change by signing up to the national 10:10 Climate Change Campaign, thanks to Mayor Dave Hodgson and the Liberal Democrats. The campaign calls on individuals, businesses and other organisations to work towards a 10% cut in carbon emissions in 2010, and the Council will commit to reaching this target as part of Dave Hodgson's drive for real action to protect the local and wider environment.
"No Government programme has ever been as inappropriately named as the Mortgage Rescue Scheme," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Housing Minister.
The world's leading experts on body image issues have today sent a paper to UK advertising authorities condemning the use of ultra-thin, digitally altered women in adverts, and backing the Liberal Democrats' campaign to curb harmful airbrushing.
Anyone who is at high risk of diabetes should have no hesitation in asking to be tested, says local Liberal Democrat campaigner Robin Lawrence in advance of World Diabetes Day tomorrow (November 14).