Park Ward's Liberal Democrat Councillor, Cllr Robin Lawrence can report that Hollyhock House on Tettenhall Road should soon be boarded up and secured. Wolverhampton Council's Sustainable Communities Division are in the process of contacting the site owners to ask them to board up the site and secure it. If the site owners fail to do this then the Council will secure the site and charge the owners accordingly.
Home secretary John Reid has made clear he would be prepared to declare a "state of emergency" to suspend key parts of the human rights convention if the law lords do not overturn a series of judgments that have weakened the anti-terrorist control order regime. Reid's stark warning to the courts follows the embarrassment of having to confirm to MPs that three terror suspects whom he had placed under control orders to prevent them travelling abroad to kill British and US troops had all absconded.
Dundee City Council Liberal Democrat Councillors, Helen Dick and Fraser Macpherson, today (Friday 25th May) said they were ready for the challenge of their new roles within the City Council administration.
Aylesbury Vale District Council Liberal Democrat Group
Paul Holmes, Liberal Democrat MP for Chesterfield has signed a Parliamentary Motion calling on Tony Blair and the other G8 leaders to take urgent action to end global poverty and avert potentially catastrophic climate change.
Speaking ahead of the Government's waste strategy announcement today, Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary, Chris Huhne MP said: "Britain is the dirtiest rich country in the European Union. Every British person throws away half a tonne each year, 15 per cent more than ten years ago. The Netherlands and Germany recycle three times as much as Britain. Most of our waste heads for landfill where it can pollute table water and create dangerous greenhouse gases like methane. This belated attempt to improve our performance needs to be far more ambitious."
