Cara, like many seven year olds, wants to fit in with her friends. Wearing the right clothes and following the latest trend is easy, but working around her diabetes is not. As Cara explains, every day it makes her feel like the odd one out.
Children in the UK with type 1 diabetes are being recruited to test an artificial pancreas. The device could allow users to more tightly control their blood glucose levels without the need for repeated jabs to test blood and give insulin.
Commenting on the sentencing of Saddam Hussein to death for crimes against humanity, Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Menzies Campbell said "The conviction of Saddam Hussein will being relief to countless Iraqis whose lives have been blighted by the enormity of his behaviour. But it will not bring back the many thousands who perished while he ruled their country. His martyrdom can only add to the instability and unrest in Iraq. He should be detained for the rest of his natural life."
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats have reacted with grave concern to the news that a further two locations in Bedford, on Ampthill Road and Goldington Road, are suffering from excessive levels of nitrogen dioxide.
Liberal Democrat campaigner Gary Fuller, who recently tackled a Shepway Council officer on the issue of visible policing, expressed his shock at discovering that, according to Kent Police's own figures, over 20% (1 in 5) of all crimes committed in Shepway occur in Harvey Central Ward, which has only one community police officer for over four-and-a-half-thousand people.
Dundee Liberal Democrats have today (Monday 6th November) backed criticism by LibDem Shadow Chancellor, Dr Vince Cable MP on the Labour Government and the banks for failing to tackle the growing problem of personal debt.
