Published on Liberal Democrat Voice By Mark Hofman | Published 31st October 2011 – 7:45 am The weekend is often over in the blink of an eye, and come Monday morning it’s off to work for the masses. The daily commute, whether it be by any means of transport, is often chaotic, crowded and frankly rather [...]

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Andrew Emmerson For too long the Lib Dems have been on the back foot over tuition fees. For too long we’ve accepted the Labour line that we have somehow betrayed the youngsters of this country and ruined higher education. For too long we have been passive and quiet celebrating [...]

Whilst out helping deliver “Focus” in Short Heath on Saturday I had an interesting conversation with a couple of ladies waiting for a bus in Stroud Avenue. “What’s your views on bus services” I asked. That was the start of a lengthy conversation the gist of which was that they were reasonably happy with the Midland number [...]

An eyesore and magnet for anti social behaviour has been demolished and contractors say that the site will be cleared by mid week reports Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires. The eyesore in question is the old Forest Gate Library just off the Lichfield Road opposite “The Square” New Invention. The site has been in private [...]

The following article was written by Nick Clegg and published yesterday on the Guardian Website. We must not back away from our responsibilities nor relinquish our hard-won influence in Europe. At last, real hope in the eurozone. Its leaders finally set out a plan last week to solve the debt crisis. We need to see [...]

In a survey of 83,000 school pupils in the UK which was recently undertaken children as young as 12 claimed they drank the equivalent of 19 glasses of wine per week. The BBC reports: Of those aged 12 or 13 questioned by the Schools Health Education Unit, 4% claimed they drank 28 units or more [...]

Provisional figures published on 27th October indicate that apprenticeship starts for academic year 2010/11 have risen by more than 50 per cent compared with final figures from 2009-10. The Statistical First Release shows that apprenticeship numbers have risen across all age ranges and levels of training across the apprenticeships programme. The data shows that there [...]

Published on Liberal Democrat Voice By Ewan Hoyle | Published 30th October 2011 – 2:10 pm I’m a candidate in a council by-election in the Hillhead ward in Glasgow. I’m a Liberal Democrat, and the ward has a big old university slap bang in the middle of it. You’d think I’d be bricking it, wouldn’t you? [...]

Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 October 2011 18.44 BST Senior Liberal Democrat MPs have staged a rebellion against coalition government plans to slice £350m a year out of the legal aid budget, warning that it will restrict access to justice. A series of amendments to the legal aid, sentencing and punishment of [...]

Willenhall Liberal Democrats are demanding that a request for enforcement action goes to Walsall Council’s Planning Committee over a long standing problem at Spindle Tree Rise where residents have been stuck between a rock and a hard place as Walsall Council battles it out with Harron Homes in a bid to get the develper top surface put on their road and [...]