Paul Holmes MP for Chesterfield has joined forces with the UK's leading breast cancer charity, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Breast Cancer to encourage all local women aged 50-70 to attend their breast-screening appointments when invited and, if aged 70 or over, to phone or write to your local breast screening unit to make an appointment.
Lib Dem Party Chief Executive, Lord Rennard, spoke at a packed Chesterfield annual constituency dinner on Saturday 20th May.
Staveley school pupils made an awesome impression when their dragon joined drummers and dancers at the official opening of Springwell School's brand new theatre, box office, practice rooms and recording studio.
Responding to the Home Office criticism of the Liberal Democrats campaign to encourage people to reapply for passports early, to stop their details being added to the Identity Cards database, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Nick Clegg MP said: "It is entirely inappropriate for a department of state to question an entirely legitimate form of protest, against a scheme which many people do not support. As recommended by Charles Clarke, we are encouraging people to apply for passports early, to avoid having important personal details added to a database, which may well not be secure. We are recommending that citizens reapply as soon as possible, as the Government refuses to give us a firm start date for their authoritarian scheme."
Dundee East Liberal Democrat parliamentary spokesperson Dr Clive Sneddon has welcomed the result of an online poll conducted by Friends of the Earth. This poll puts the Liberal Democrats far ahead of the other main parties in caring about climate change.
Dundee Liberal Democrats have today (Friday 26th May) expressed concern over new statistics released by the Department for Work and Pensions showing that targets for reducing levels of fraud and error in payments of Income Support, Job Seekers Allowance and Pensions Credit have been missed.