Dundee City Councillor for Tay Bridges Ward, Cllr Fraser Macpherson, has this afternoon (Friday 19th May), slammed Scottish Water for their lack of responsiveness following a young girl trapping her foot in a drain in Dundee's Commercial Street.
Anti-ID Card campaigners have highlighted two separate issues this week which increase fears for the forthcoming Identity Card scheme. The identities of 13,000 civil servants have been stolen from Department of Work and Pensions databases by organised criminals, and around 600,000 documents have been reported lost or stolen by the Identity and Passport Service.
Sandgate Conservative Councillor Joy Macmillan has resigned from the Party in Shepway. Joy Macmillan announced she was to become an Independent councillor on Tuesday night following a Conservative group meeting. Shepway Liberal Democrat Councillors backed Joy Macmillan in her bid to remain as Deputy Chair of the Council for a second year, and praised her courage.
Rob Marris, Wolverhampton South West's Labour MP has today criticised the Labour Government over climate change calling their record woeful.
The Liberal Democrats have launched a green taxation paper, The Green Switch, aimed at curbing carbon emissions and halting global warming. The main policies unveiled include:
The Lib Dems have won the 2006 Y Vote Mock Local Elections, gaining 30 per cent of the votes of the young people who took part. The Labour party and the Green Party were tied in second place. The results, published by the Hansard Society, and supported by The Electoral Commission and the Department for Education and Skills, show a clear difference between the political attitudes of voters in the mock elections and their adult counterparts.