It was once known as the Sacred Disease. Its sufferers were revered and stigmatised in equal measure for their supposedly divinely ordained condition. Julius Caesar, Peter the Great, and Byron are just a few of the best known historical figures to have had epilepsy.
We now have a new Prime Minister - although no one not even Labour Party members had any say in the matter. What though if anything will change? Gordon has trailed some changes in the way Government works -but will any policies change or will it just be more of the same? On policy Gordon says he wants to tackle the NHS, Crime and Housing, but where has he been for the last 10 years? The answer is that he has been at the centre of Government as Blair's number two and controller of the purse strings.
Councillors were asked to make a decision on the future of our community halls, even though detailed cost, usage and maintenance figures were not provided to them and one of the largest halls in the borough, Keys Hall in Warley, is still under threat of closure by the Conservative administration.
Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Sunday 30th September) slammed the SNP Government's abandonment of the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link (EARL) project for its detrimental effect on the Dundee and Tayside economy and transport links to Edinburgh Airport.
Tory shadow chancellor George Osborne has rowed back from environmental policies that have enraged the right as the Tories geared up for their annual conference. The shadow chancellor said that proposals to tax supermarket car parks and to give air passengers a "green miles" allowance, under which they would be taxed if they took more than one short-haul flight a year, would now be abandoned. The green plans were drawn up by a policy commission under John Gummer and Zac Goldsmith, but have proved controversial among more traditional Tories. The Conservatives have been accused of retreating into a right-wing comfort zone.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has published a useful guide to EU funding sources for environmental projects. The guide covers the funding period 2007-2013 and deals with topics ranging from nature conservation to reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and sustainable transport.