Commenting on the decision of the incoming Labour council leader, Nick Forbes, to abandon the Government's £5M funding for a major young peoples' facility in the city centre, outgoing Council Leader, David Fauklner, commented:
Birmingham has been confirmed as one of the host destinations for the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay next summer. Liberal Democrat Councillor Martin Mullaney, Birmingham City Council's Cabinet Member for Leisure, Sport and Culture, said "The Torch Relay is the curtain raiser to what we know will be a huge and spectacular sporting event, so I'm proud that Birmingham has been selected as an overnight stay for the Olympic flame."
On 18 May 2011, Malaysian-born Cllr Helen Chuah was inaugurated as the first ever Mayor of Colchester to have been born outside of the UK as well as the first Chinese Liberal Democrat Mayor in the UK.
Graham Pooley is the Lib Dem candidate in the by-election for the Central Chelmsford seat on Essex County Council, following the sad death of Cllr Margaret Hutchon. Graham Pooley is Essex and Chelmsford through and through, lives in the town centre, and from his time as a Borough Councillor is respected as an experienced, committed and passionate campaigner against overdevelopment of the Town Centre and urban areas. Among his priorities he says the County Council must:
Speaking in a Commons debate, South Lakes MP Tim Farron praised Broadband campaigners in the Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency, and said that Government plans to get 2 Mb/s broadband to everyone across the country by 2015 are seriously unambitious.
Under sustained pressure from the people of Wiltshire, Council Chief Executive Andrew Kerr has declined the pay rise offered to him by Wiltshire's Conservative Administration.