Jo Swinson MP, Lib Dem equality spokesperson, has marked World AIDS Day by joining a coalition of charities in Parliament Square calling on the Government to strengthen its efforts to tackle HIV and AIDS. She has pledged support for the Stop AIDS Campaign - a coalition of over 80 UK-based NGOs - and has written to Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander on the issue.
Liberal Democrat South East Region MEP Sharon Bowles is playing host to more than 30 Liberal Democrats from the Shepway area this Monday. The trip from Folkestone will be visiting Brussels and will then visit the European Parliament building itself on Monday, before returning to the UK.
The Liberal Democrat Party's deputy leader, treasury spokesman and now acting leader has proved exceptionally adept at the job. Gone are the panto-style groans that have greeted previous Lib Dem leaders when they stand to take their turn in the Commons hurly-burly of question time. Instead this week he brought the House down, with his quip about the "prime minister's remarkable transformation in the last few weeks from Stalin to Mr Bean, creating chaos out of order rather than order out of chaos". It was the kind of ridicule politicians fear as it might just stick.
Folkestone Town Council has backed a motion proposed by Lib Dem Councillor and Deputy Mayor Emily Sanger calling on Kent County Council (KCC) to work with all interested parties to see the restoration of museum status to Folkestone. The KCC run and owned Folkestone Museum lost its museum registration this month, and it has been downgraded to a "History Resource Centre".
Inequalities in the provision of specialist child mental health services have worsened in the last seven years, a survey shows. The Royal College of Psychiatrists found the number of in-patient beds in England had risen from 844 to 1,128.
Liberal Democrat ward councillors have responded to the news that Stewartby brickworks is to close in February 2008 with sadness and disappointment.
