We have just been informed of some changes are happening to buses in West Wiltshire. A new service called the West Wiltshire Zig Zag will replace a number of existing services, namely the 37, 38, 72 and 237.
UK participation in the proposed EU measure to streamline the cross-border collection of criminal evidence is in principle welcome (Britons face DNA demands from foreign police, July 26th). The European Investigation Order has the potential to cut red tape and catch more criminals.
ALTER's Executive committee has met to decide on its Party Conference fringe event theme at Liverpool in September. Speakers will be asked to comment on a new chapter in the successful book (The Case for a New Peoples Budget) which ALTER published last year, by Brian Hodgkinson, probing the links between the global banking crisis and failure in land markets.
South East Lib Dem MEP Sharon Bowles has been named the most influential woman in European finance, according to a Top 100 list published in the Financial News.
Park Ward Liberal Democrats are delivering a special Focus in the Chapel Ash and West Park areas outlining recent achievements of Cllrs Robin Lawrence and Claire Darke in those parts of the Ward.
The EU's bank watchdog, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS), is to publish the results of its bank stress tests. Stress tests were implemented last year in the US to identify banks that would require additional capital to survive in case the recession got worse.
