Supermarket firm Tesco has decided to stop its work with a charity which delivers shopping to the elderly and disabled in south west Scotland. It used to prepare bags of groceries which the Food Train service then distributed in and around Stranraer.
The parents of a 13-year-old girl who was disabled following alleged hospital errors at her birth, have launched a High Court fight for compensation. Harriet Frobisher, from Prestatyn, Denbighshire, suffers from Erb's Palsy, limiting the use of her right arm.
Paul Holmes MP today as a part of End Child Poverty month joined Save the Children, Shelter and the End Child Poverty coalition on a march on the Treasury to press for the end to child poverty. Paul launched the national campaign in Chesterfield at the Unemployed Workers Centre on October 19th.
Lib Dems are calling for under fire Councillor, David Murphy to resign from the Council. They are accusing Labour of covering up his "move to Spain".
The media is at its best when it is in investigative mode - Would President Nixon ever have been impeached and Watergate uncovered had not the Washington Post published the story? At the moment I'm speaking to a journalist on a national newspaper about what happens to women of arranged marriages when the marriage fails. Foreign born nationals cannot easily get help yet many cannot return home. Research carried out for me recently has shown that up to 17 women in Rochdale could be sleeping rough. For humanitarian reasons alone we should be helping these women. I hope that by publishing their plight (and I do not believe Rochdale is alone in having this problem) we can get help and assistance for these women.
Heywood and Middleton Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate Councillor Wera Hobhouse has welcomed next year's proposed council tax increase as one of the lowest in the country, she said: "3.8% is the lowest for eleven years and shows the benefits of a Liberal Democrat controlled Council.