The New Ming Dynasty
It's been an exciting few weeks!
It's been an exciting few weeks!
Cllr Fraser Macpherson has today (Tuesday 7th March) produced a special edition of his FOCUS newsletter for constituents in the City Centre part of Tay Bridges Ward.
West End Dundee City Councillor Fraser Macpherson has congratulated the Al-Maktoum Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies for its most recent initiative - an Open Day taking place on Saturday 18th March, to enable all in the local community to visit the Institute and see what the Institute is all about.
In a letter to Sir Menzies Campbell MP, the Government last night admitted for the first time that aircraft suspected of being used by the CIA to transport detainees to secret interrogation centres had landed at British military airfields. Michael Moore, Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesperson said "Another week, another grudging admission from the Government. There is now a well-established pattern of partial disclosures after repeated denials. These are disturbing revelations. Were these rendition flights or not? Ministers must urgently obtain answers from the US Government."
Dundee East Liberal Democrat parliamentary spokesperson Dr Clive Sneddon has today (7th March 2006) welcomed the report by a team of senior Liberal Democrats chaired by former Scottish Parliament Presiding Officer David Steel.
Conservative-run Surrey County Council today refused to maintain current funding to the county's voluntary sector, choosing instead to oppose a Liberal Democrat motion which had called for an end to the proposed £838,000 cut in funding. Fiona White, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Adults and Community Care, said after the meeting that the Tory amendment to the motion was "woolly" and had no funding substance to it on which the voluntary organisations could rely.