The two men vying to be the next Lib Dem leader have both said they would happily welcome back their predecessors into their front bench teams. They were speaking during a special edition of Question Time on BBC TV. Mr Clegg said he had already had private conversations with Sir Menzies Campbell and Charles Kennedy. Mr Huhne said it would be foolish not to make use of men of their "calibre".
The Home Office announced on Thursday they would withdraw funding for the 101 service from March 2008. The service allowed residents to report non-emergency criminal activity and had been piloted in five areas nationwide, including Northumbria. It was working so well in the North that it had been nominated for a national award by the Home Office.
Liberal Democrats at Essex County Council have been left baffled following Conservative leader David Cameron's plans to support council tax, as the Conservative group at the council recently supported a Lib Dem motion criticising the tax.
A PETITION is heading for Royal Mail pleading the case to keep a post office in Warley Hill open.
Government plans to build three million new homes before 2020 were moved forward yesterday with the publication of the housing and regeneration bill.The bill will create a new home and communities agency and will reform social housing regulation. The bill also attempts to make private sector land available for brownfield development. The new home and communities agency will oversee the delivery of the government's affordable housing targets.
Local MP Tim Farron is taking action on the concerns of young people, after the huge success of his latest Youth Forum where he met with 28 young people from right Westmorland and Lonsdale last Friday. The Youth Forum, which has been held a number of times before, discussed facilities for young people, affordable housing, climate change, transport and how the Government could relate to young people better. As has happened in previous years, Tim will now take forward the views of the young people in the form of letters to ministers and others in authority, parliamentary questions and parliamentary motions.