ONS pay-squeeze figures: The Government simply doesn't care Rise in faulty sewage monitors as water firms accused of "covering up environmental scandal" Prepayment meters: This half-measure is an insult Lib Dems launch digital campaign on A to Z of Conservative sleaze and scandal Calls For Welsh Labour to Take Stronger Action on Coal Mining Following Successful Lords Vote ONS pay-squeeze figures: The Government simply doesn't care Responding to the latest ONS unemployment and earnings figures which saw average pay fall by 2.3% in the year to December 2022 to February 2023, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Sarah Olney said: This is ...
Embed from Getty ImagesLet's begin this story with Peter Freeman. Freeman won Brecon and Radnor for Labour at the 1929 general election, but lost it two years later after Ramsey MacDonald's formation of a National Government split the party. He returned to the Commons as MP for Newport in 1945, having beaten Roy Jenkins to the Labour nomination, and represented the seat until his death in 1956. In 2004 Mike Bloksome published a biography of Freeman under the title The Green Casanova. The blurb on Amazon describes its subject as: arms manufacturer, cigar producer, international tennis player, MP, theosophist, animal ...
Tue 18th
18:41
Four In A Bed: Cardiff hotel guests say they won't return after 'cat sat on breakfast'
Thanks to a nomination from a Liberal England reader, Wales Online wins our prestigious Headline of the Day Award.
£20 Billion per year or 1.3% of our GDP is nothing to be sniffed at. That means, in real terms, more jobs staying in the UK, a more competitive economy and a scenario where we aspire to more from our young people. This is something to be admired. A two minute conversation with the standard Liberal Democrat campaigner will tell you that we are not exactly fond of the Conservatives, with their politicisation of human rights issues, woeful running of the economy and the lowering of our standards in public life, those are just some of the many reasons why. ...
Chimney Pots is the building on Church Street between the Church Inn and the alleyway to St Lawrence's Church. It has been covered in scaffolding for months. In recent days, Chimney Pots has inspected by engineers. They found the building to be at risk and potentially unstable. To ensure public safety, the scaffolding is to be extended urgently to prop up the building. The reconfigured scaffolding will close Church Street at the Buttercross except for pedestrians. The alleyway to St Laurence's Church will be closed completely for scaffolding and boarding. There is yet no timescale for the closures but given ...
Ballot e-mails will be going out shortly for members in London to decide the order of our candidates for the List election for the Greater London Assembly in May 2024. The Assembly has fourteen constituency members and eleven elected on Party lists. So, if our share of the vote gives us four people to be elected on the List, the top four on our list will become Assembly members. We currently have two GLA members - Caroline Pidgeon and Hina Bokhari, though Caroline has announced she is not standing again. There are eleven members competing: Chris Annous Rob Blackie Cllr ...
My degree, for what it's worth, is in Mathematics (with Statistics), and I am, by most people's standards, highly numerate. This allows me to look at Rishi Sunak's announcement that the Government is going to raise standards of maths skills with a soupçon of scepticism. I've always been of the view that, at the level confronted by most people, maths skills are as much about confidence as they are about technique. I encounter people who will throw their hands up and declare how bad they are at it and yet, if given the time and space to work through a ...
Inflation may be running at around 10% at the moment, but for some basics it is much higher than that. The Guardian reports that the price of staple foods such as cheddar cheese, white bread and pork sausages has soared by up to 80% in some shops over the past year, in further evidence of how inflation is hitting those on the tightest budgets the hardest. The paper says that porridge oats topped the price increase ranking among a basket of British basics measured by the consumer group Which?, with prices up by an average of 35.5% followed by skimmed ...
Responding to the Government's announcement that certain machetes and 'zombie knives' may be outlawed, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesperson Alistair Carmichael MP said: We all want to see dangerous knives off our streets, but this Conservative government has consistently failed to keep our communities safe. With crime rates on the rise and so many cases of all kinds going unsolved, it's clear that this is a party that cannot get even the basics of policing right.
Tue 18th
07:00
HERA - Harris Education and Recreation Association - enrolment tomorrow #dundeewestend
The next term of HERA evening classes is due to run in May and June. Enrolment for classes will open at an event in Harris Academy tomorrow - Wednesday 19th April. If you are interested in joining a class next term, please come along between 6pm and 7pm - all welcome! More information is available at www.tiny.cc/HERA-enrolment
