The Liberal Democrat Spring Conference at the weekend backed plans to give all families 20 hours of free, high quality childcare as well as allowing fathers to take up to one year of paternity leave.
Having a phone in your bedroom, turning your TV off at the switch and making sure all doors are closed before going to bed at night - all measures that could save your life if a fire starts in your home.
A senior Lib Dem councillor has welcomed the party's decision to reaffirm its long standing policy of scrapping tuition fees for university undergraduates at its Spring Conference in Harrogate.
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen is stepping up the pressure on the government after figures recently released showed that 16 pubs across Rochdale have been forced into closure since June 2005. The figures also indicated that an average of 35 pubs a week across Britain are currently closing their doors to the community.
The Liberal Democrat leader tells his party conference that it will be a long, slow climb out of recession but his party offers hope for the future.
A Facebook Group "Register your disgust at John Redwood's 'date rape' comments" has been set up after the Conservative MP for Wokingham made comments about the Government's approach to date rape in his web-log.