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In Defiance of Kent Highways*

I come not to praise the maintenance of the roads and streetlights in Shepway, but to bury them.

NEW FIGURES HIGHLIGHT GROWING 'FUEL POVERTY' PROBLEM IN NEWCASTLE

Soaring energy bills have left an estimated 26,000 households in Newcastle in fuel poverty this winter, according to new figures highlighted by the Liberal Democrats.

CHRISTMAS COMES LATE FOR 5,000 ELDERLY PEOPLE IN NEWCASTLE

Christmas bonus payments for nearly 5,000 elderly people in Newcastle to help with winter fuel bills will not be paid until nearly Easter, a leading local Liberal Democrat is warning

Lib Dems Win Council Backing for Minimum Alcohol Price Call

The Liberal Democrats' call for the introduction of a minimum price for alcohol, to stop shops selling alcohol at a loss, has won the backing of Bedford Borough Council.

Working Day and Night

Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual

Restriction of our fundamental rights and freedoms has gone too far. ID cards, more CCTV cameras per head than any country in the world, a database of children's fingerprints, a government that wants to conceal its own record on the disastrous war in Iraq - it's the stuff of fiction.