Davey calls for big mental health investment on visit to Mid Dunbartonshire Hunt owes an apology to millions of hardworking Brits after tax hikes McArthur to host assisted dying Q&A at Scottish Liberal Democrat conference Welsh Lib Dems blast Welsh Gov for failing women suffering from cancer "It's time to back our GP's"- Mid and West Wales MS Jane Dodds Davey calls for big mental health investment on visit to Mid Dunbartonshire Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey has called for more support for people suffering from mental ill-health on a visit to the Milngavie and Bearsden Men's Shed. ...
Embed from Getty ImagesOne of the key legal figures in the later years of the Post Office scandal is refusing to appear at the public inquiry into it, reports Law Gazette. Jane MacLeod, who was the organisation's chief in-house lawyer between 2015 and 2019, was due to appear as a witness next month to explain her role in the civil litigation that fully exposed the scandal. But today the counsel to the inquiry, Jason Beer KC, told another witness before the inquiry: "We are not going to hear from her. She lives abroad and won't co-operate." The Law Gazette report ...
During my book-hunting escapades, I stumbled upon Harold MacMillan's "The Middle Way." Its weathered cover, nestled among forgotten tomes, bore striking images: Mussolini's Fascist emblem and the Soviet hammer with sickle; symbols of Europe's political divide in 1938. Between them, the book's title, "Middle Way," almost asking politely: "Do things have to be this way?" The lack of evocative symbol of its own hints at thoughtful ideas contained within its pages. Intrigued, I purchased it, eager to explore its ideas before the rain set in. If some of your readers are familiar with my previous (and first) blog entry, where ...
Embed from Getty ImagesWell now. BBC Countryfile reports: An undisclosed Cumbrian hill farm is the location for the first ever positive identification of big cat DNA taken from a carcass. In October last year, Cumbrian resident Sharon Larkin-Snowden came across the carcass and disturbed the animal that had been feeding on it. Larkin-Snowden told big cat expert Rick Minter's Big Cat Conversations podcast that the carcass was clearly still fresh and that only some of the internal organs had been consumed. "To my right, I saw something black running, and assumed it was a sheepdog," she said. "Then I did ...
YouGov reports a new poll following the news that the government wants to ban schools in England from teaching about gender identity.
Congratulations to longstanding campaigner Richard Kemp who has been sworn in as Lord Mayor of Liverpool, having served a year as Deputy Lord Mayor. This year his wife, Erica, will support him as Lady Mayoress – she was Lord Mayor herself 10 years ago. Richard was first elected to Liverpool City Council, in 1975. Since then he has been a councillor for 47 years, and was Leader of the Lib Dem group until last year. Many of us in local government have had much to thank Richard for in a wider context. He was Leader of the Liberal Democrats in ...
Nation Cymru, which is of course funded by the Welsh Government, is showing an admirable independence in its reporting on the Welsh First Minister recently, even suggesting that his time in office may be coming to an end. Lettuce, anybody? Their latest piece quotes an unnamed Welsh Labour source as saying the sacking of Hannah Blythyn as a minister, for supposedly leaking damaging WhatsApp messages, brings closer the tipping point when the Labour Party accepts that keeping Vaughan Gething in office is more damaging than getting rid of him: Ms Blythyn's dismissal - for allegedly leaking iMessages to NationCymru that ...
Residents recently highlighted to us that a large utility box had fallen over in Edward Street near the Larch Street/Forest Park Place junctions. Fraser is pictured at the site and we reported the matter to the roads maintenance partnership, who kindly contacted the utility company who own the box and it is now resolved.
