Sign the Phone Mast Petition
Please join other local residents in signing our petitons against 15 metre high phone masts being put in local residential areas.
13 Mar 2011
National News
Tax cut to help North East workers
Thousands of the lowest paid workers in the North East will no longer have to pay income tax from April thanks to changes introduced by the Coalition Government.
12 Mar 2011
McInnes reveals that over 1,770 people in Dundee City taken out of income tax
North East Liberal Democrat MSP, Alison McInnes, has revealed that 59,800 people in Dundee City will pay reduced income tax from April this year, thanks to the Liberal Democrat-led increase in the personal tax allowance.
12 Mar 2011
Network Rail Must Respect Riverside Right of Way Over Footbridge
Network Rail is seeking to pull down the footbridge over the Bedford to Bletchley railway line along the riverside path in Bedford, near the Prebend Street Bridge. This may not mean much to those people who don't use that path, but the many people who do know it and who use this important route between the town centre and Queens Park and Kempston will know that this means people will have to use the path under the bridge. That would be fine, were the clearance under the bridge on the path not just 4 foot 9 inches, and liable to flooding which makes it impassable.
12 Mar 2011
Disability Living Allowance - the removal of mobility component - motion passed at Lib Dem Conference
To-day, the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference passed an amended motion on the proposed removal of the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance for those who live in residential care homes or children who have to go to residential schools. Here is the text of the motion:-
12 Mar 2011
Dundee LibDems back Fairer Votes
Dundee Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates Alison Burns (Dundee City West) and Allan Petrie (Dundee City East) have met up with Alison McInnes, Liberal Democrat MSP for North East Scotland, in Dundee's West End to show their support for the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign.
12 Mar 2011