Local MP Tim Farron has helped launch a campaign to save the Coronary Care Unit, Stroke Unit and maintain the provision of acute medical emergencies at Westmorland General Hospital. Tony Impey, a user of the Coronary Care Unit and patient representative on the Cardiac Rehabilitation Group for Morecambe Bay, has organised this campaign.
Labour Councillor Ann Holtom has today left the Labour party to join the Liberal Democrats. Councillor Holtom who represents the Tyburn Ward will take the number of Councillors on the City Council's Liberal Democrats group to 33, up from 28 just ten months ago making it the growing party in Birmingham!
A special election Focus is being delivered in Park Ward. It illustrates the extensive work done during the year by Robin Lawrence and the Focus Team. There is an article on "Labour has let us down" and one on "Tories admit they can not win"
Liberal Democrat Leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, has highlighted the Party's crime initiative. He dropped in on Liberal Democrat-controlled Sutton to meet police officers and council staff who work together at the town's police station to provide neighbourhood wardens, drug and alcohol abuse services, wardens, truancy liaison officers and domestic violence services. "Preventing crime is very much a liberal issue," he said, during the visit.
The Liberal Democrats are the only party who is putting up a candidate against the Conservatives in every ward across the Epping Forest District. Every vote for the Liberal Democrats will help elect a Lib Dem Councillor.
Paul Holmes MP today attacked the Government for failing to ensure that National Lottery funds are fairly distributed across the country.
