Birmingham Ladywood MP and former Cabinet minister Clare Short says she will be stepping down as an MP at the next General Election. Ms Short blamed Tony Blair's foreign policy and said: "I have reached a stage where I am profoundly ashamed of the government."
A campaign by local residents backed by Knighton Councillor's Joan Garrity and Gary Hunt has ended in success when new toilet blocks for Knighton Park opened late last month.
Leicester has won two top awards, the East Midlands in Bloom Award and the Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management (ILAM) Open Space Innovation Award for 2006.
At yesterday's meeting of the Executive of the East of England Regional Assembly (EERA), the Liberal Democrats proposed that EERA take a stand against the building of new nuclear reactors in the East of England, such as expansion of the Sizewell site in Suffolk.
Christine McHugh is campaigning to Save Bedford Hospital from the savage cuts that are being proposed. Please sign Christine's petition to help the campaign.
The Labour and Tory Groups at East of England Regional Assembly have been roundly attacked by the Liberal Democrats after failing at yesterday's Regional Assembly meeting to agree a practical way forward for the financing of sub post offices.