Commenting on the news this morning that University of Cumbria vice chancellor Peter McCaffery is leaving the university with immediate effect, local MP Tim Farron said:
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today expressed his disappointment at the University of Cumbria's new business which offers little for the South Lakes, and instead places continued emphasis on Lancaster.
Representatives of the Totnes & Brixham Liberal Democrats were present in Birmingham on the 16th May to attend a special conference called to debate the recent coalition agreement. The mood of Lib Dem members was described by one speaker as ranging from "excited but anxious" to "anxious but excited". The conference was opened by Baroness Ros Scott, the party president. She was warm in her praise for Nick Clegg and the negotiating team and was the first of many speakers to say that they had no alternative to making a deal with the Conservatives.
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ALTER Chair Tony Vickers was among over 2000 Lib Dems at the Special Federal Conference of Lib Dems in Birmingham on Sunday 16th May 2010 - a date for the history books, as the first appearance of a Liberal Cabinet Minister before a Party Conference for some 75 years.
This is a copy of the letter sent to Lib Dem Leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council, David Foster by the Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David Laws MP.
