More than 130 patients waited over 24 hours at A&E before being admitted to hospital at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust last year, Liberal Democrat Freedom of Information (FOI) requests have revealed.
Amanda Harland, former Conservative Candidate for Colne Valley in West Yorkshire, has defected to the Liberal Democrats.
The Liberal Democrats will today launch the most comprehensive package of policies for older people of any major political party. It is aimed at lifting the most vulnerable pensioners out of poverty and ending the inherent unfairness of the system by bridging the historic gap between men and women.
The Liberal Democrats today launch ten positive proposals that will form the centrepiece of their General Election campaign. The launch has been backed by the most substantial advertising campaign in the party's history - with full page adverts in the Daily Mail, The Independent and The Times to be followed up by a fleet of touring poster vans.
Eleanor Key, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson for Congleton, has called for the Government to reverse their decision to cut grants for new solar power schemes. The cuts end a grant allocation scheme for solar power, which harnesses sunlight to generate electricity, officially planned to run until 2012. Eleanor Key said:
The Independent revealed that thousands of pensioners would miss out on the free bus travel promised in Gordon Brown's Budget because of where they live. The Government has admitted that free bus passes for pensioners will only cover travel within the local authority in which they are resident.