A Buersil resident who often has to walk to the Post Office with the aid of an oxygen bottle is leading the fight to save the Office from closure, after it was revealed by Rochdale Online last week that Buersil had been confirmed as one of the six branches to close in Rochdale.
A MORI survey of more than 5,000 people across Greater Manchester suggests that the residents of the Borough of Rochdale will vote for congestion charging in the forthcoming referendum.
With energy companies recently announcing price rises of up to 35%, Stephen Robinson, Parliamentary Candidate for Chelmsford, has said that energy companies should be compelled to use the money from a £9 billion European windfall to help protect some of the most vulnerable people from the effects of fuel poverty.
Dundee Liberal Democrat Councillor for the West End, Cllr Fraser Macpherson, today (Saturday 16th August) launched the on-line version of his recently delivered FOCUS newsletter.
That is the shocking information that Local Lib Dems have obtained from Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Jenny Willott.
Following the damning Ofsted review of Surrey County Council's services for vulnerable children (see the previous news item) the Lib Dem group of councillors have called on the Tory Leader of the Council to resign.
