Proposals from the Liberal Democrats for big improvements to schools and teaching will see around £17 million of extra cash for schools in Bedfordshire to boost the education and life chances of thousands of children.
Hundreds of people turned up at Parliament last night (10 Feb 2009) to hear about the new Sustainable Communities Act which recently became law due to a huge campaign effort by the Local Works coalition (www.localworks.org) of which the Liberal Democrats are a leading member.
Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Defra Tim Farron MP has proposed using the Isle of Man as an incubator to deal with the dramatic decline in population of the British honeybee.
Local Liberal Democrats have supported the Government's calls for "Independent Living For All". In a drive to enable able bodied and disabled people to live as full a life as possible, local Liberal Democrats are supporting plans for disabled residents, their families and carers to have their needs independently assessed and to be given the opportunity to lead a more independent life.
There are doubts over the future of a £55million learning campus in Ashford, Kent after the Learning Skills Council, which is in charge of funding, announced a temporary freeze on all decisions on major schemes.
The Folkestone Gurkha Justice protest was featured on Meridian News yesterday, explaining the ongoing campaign against the discrimination against Gurkha's who retired from the British Army before 1997 and are being refused citizenship rights in the UK.