Local Lib Dems Sam Matthews and Darren Briddock are opposing Labour plans for ID cards. A report by the influential London School of Economics prices the ID card system as costing up to £18 billion - £300 for every person in the country.
The Liberal Democrats yesterday announced their plans for reform of the pensions system. The Liberal Democrats have written to Adair Turner, Chairman of the Pension Commission, setting out 10 key principles for pension reform.
Hythe computer expert and businessman Darren Briddock has spoken out against plans to fly nearly 100 head teachers from Kent to America for a fact-finding trip in term time to study "the application of the computer age in transforming the ways teachers teach and children learn".
Paul Rowen (Rochdale, LDem)
Springvale Councillor Richard Whitehouse contacted Wolverhampton City Highways concerning the dangerous condition of a retaining wall on the Birmingham New Road. It has now been repaired.
Springvale Focus Team member Sandra Terry reports that an extra stump has been put in the footpath near the Spa shop on the Birmingham New Road to help stop cars driving down the path.