How do you fingerprint and number 60 million people? To begin with you need to get them to come to you. The government's solution to that problem is to make people report themselves when they get a passport.
The Liberal Democrats have called for new Government plans to take £225 million out of the cash reserves of up to 20,000 English schools to be scrapped. Figures suggest that 90% of Secondary and Primary schools across Shepway will have money 'clawed back' under the rule.
JUDGEMENT on a planning application for a block of eight flats in Buckhurst Hill has been deferred after councillors spoke of their concern about potential traffic problems.
At 9.30am on Friday the 19th October the Derbyshire Unemployed Worker's Centre are hosting an event to help end child poverty. Local Chesterfield MP Paul Holmes will be speaking at the event along with Katy Farr, a Community Worker from Boythorpe. 3.8million children in the UK today live in poverty and the problem affects children from every region.
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats have called on the council to address public concern over unsightly, overgrown bushes and trees across the borough. Lib Dems on the council are receiving more complaints from residents on this subject than ever, with many people concerned not only about the effect of unattractive, unkempt trees and bushes in local neighbourhoods but also the safety issues involved with trees overhanging roads and footpaths.
Alistair Darling stands accused of seizing up to £2bn from pensioners in the small print of his proverbial 'magpie Budget'. In the latest blow to the Chancellor's plans, it emerged that some £400m a year over five years will be clawed from the pensions system to fund higher spending and tax cuts. Mr Darling's move, buried in the detail of his autumn statement, will hurry forward by up to five years a planned cap on the value of the new state second pension, which limits the value of pay-outs to pensioners.