LibDem Blogs - Aggregated!

The Assembly Local Government Minister, Sue Essex, has announced that she expects the ruling Labour groups in the three Councils of Caerphilly, Newport and Torfaen to give up chairs of scrutiny committees and allow the opposition to have them instead. She has given them until their annual meetings in May to comply or she will lobby Westminster for a change in the law to force them to comply with her guidance. It is about time. Mind you, it is sometimes difficult to get the opposition to play ball with political balance for these committee chairs. In Swansea for example, the

I don't mind long car journeys providing that I am doing the driving and I have a good selection of rock music to keep me going. The three and a half hour journey from the Wirral back to Swansea this morning was therefore quite bearable. I had the opportunity to listen to the CDs that my wife and I had got from my family for Christmas, whilst enjoying the very pleasant Welsh countryside. The gem amongst this collection turned out to be the new album by Liverpool band, The Zutons. The highlight of the journey was, as

Well not all of you, just the one, and that's Heather. Love you lots xxxx

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The Home Office has refused to reveal how many prisoners are currently at large with the claim it would be "too expensive to reveal". I suppose it would be quite silly of me to say "there's probably a list", but let's face it, there probably is. Or does this mean that the Government doesn't actually know who is at large? So, the Home Office is either a) withholding important information from the