BBC News England  30 September 2010 Commuters in Birmingham faced morning rush hour delays 15 hours after police were called to a report of a man standing on railings on a bridge. The West Midlands force was called to the area around a bridge above Paradise Circus near Birmingham Central Library at about 1555 BST on [...]

Liberal Democrat Euro MP Liz Lynne hosted a top level meeting by health campaign groups and experts in Brussels today to discuss sharing the best aspects of national cancer control plans for a Europe-wide assault on the killer disease. The meeting of MEPs Against Cancer at the European Parliament brought together MEPs from different parties, [...]

FURTHER DISRUPTION is expected this morning for commuters into Birmingham city centre as roads remain sealed off in relation to an ongoing police incident. At 3.54pm yesterday, (Wednesday 29 September) police received a call from a member of the public who reported a man standing on railings on a bridge above Paradise Circus near Birmingham [...]

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What’s it all about? This autumn, Liberal Democrat Children’s Minister Sarah Teather will publish a green paper outlining the government’s approach to improving the support for children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities. The consultation document states that too many children and young people with SEN or disabilities are failed by [...]

A call has been made to Labour supporters who are outraged at the “anti-democratic” election of Ed Miliband as the new Leader of the Labour Party to switch to the Liberal Democrats and help to make sure that the Coalition Government deals with the country’s economic crisis while helping to offset the worst outcomes of [...]

By Simon de Deney | Published on Liberal Democrat Voice, 29th September 2010 – 1:10 pm ‘Red Ed’? Congratulations! To all the newspapers that preferred easy rhyme over rigorous analysis. Because anyone who watched or read Milliband Minor’s Conference speech can see where he is aiming to position Labour: “This new generation that leads our party… [...]

By Mark Pack | Published on Liberal Democrat Voice, 29th September 2010 – 1:05 pm Dear David Davis, You have me confused. In your speech today you warn against “the destruction of a 200-year-old constitution” and give this as a reason to oppose AV. But aside from our voting system, there is another part of that [...]

By Mark Pack | Published on Liberal Democrat Voice, 29th September 2010 – 11:58 am One of the fringe meetings I spoke at during the Liverpool conference was ResPublica’s on the topic of “Growing a civil economy through a civil society”. Accompanying ResPublica’s fringe program is a pamphlet with pieces accompanying the talks we all gave [...]

By Stephen Tall | Published on Liberal Democrat Voice, 29th September 2010 – 9:27 am Ed Miliband was not an MP in 2003, when Labour and Conservative MPs voted en masse to approve the British invasion of Iraq: so we do not know how he would have voted if he had had the opportunity. The Ed-supporting [...]