Winter Fuel vote: Cut will be deeply worrying to millions 589 people die from suspected drug death in first half of 2024 Alcohol deaths highest in 15 years Cole-Hamilton: Supporting 168,000 Long Covid sufferers is vital economic investment Rennie responds to Michael Matheson's return to parliament Rennie responds to Children's Commissioner free school meals comments Winter Fuel vote: Cut will be deeply worrying to millions Responding to the vote to cut the Winter Fuel Payment, Liberal Democrat Work and Pensions Spokesperson Wendy Chamberlain MP said: Millions of pensioners will be left deeply worried about how they will get by this ...
This is the locomotive shed for the Snailbeach District Railways, which you will find among the preserved mining buildings at Snailbeach. The line took lead ore away for smelting and brought coal to power the mining complex. The last locomotives ran here in 1946. I've visited this site many times, but I'd not noticed before this summer the loco shed is roofed with corrugated iron, the vernacular building material of the Shropshire lead-mining country. (Of course, the shed may once have had a slate roof.) The way buildings were thrown up in the mid 19th century gave its townships the ...
Lady Justice Thirlwall's inquiry into events at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester while Lucy Letby was employed there opened today. Letby is a former neonatal nurse who has been sentenced to 15 whole-life terms after she was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others. There has since been widespread concern about the safety of these convictions. I was taken aback by Lady Thirlwall's remarks on this concern, as quoted by the Guardian: "So far as I'm aware it has come entirely from people who were not at the trial. Parts of the evidence have ...
So the new Chairs of the three Lib Dem led House of Commons Select Committeeshave been announced They were all elected unopposed. Alistair Carmichael will chair the Environment, Food and Rural Affaiirs Committee. The Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee is @amcarmichaelMP after being elected unopposed. pic.twitter.com/6ZqEFVMTmO — EFRA Committee (@CommonsEFRA) September 9, 2024 She said on her election: With millions stuck on waiting lists, doctors and nurses overstretched and far too many elderly people trapped in hospital without a care plan. the role of the Committee as a critical friend of the Government has never been ...
The Liberal Democrat Campaign for Racial Equality will be holding a very important fringe meeting on Sunday 15th September at 7:45 pm in room 1D in the Brighton Centre. We will be discussing progress on implementing the Alderdice Review, six years after it was published. The event is being held in association with Liberator and the Social Liberal Forum. The speakers are: Dr Mark Pack, Party President Meral Hussein Ece, Lib Dem member of the House of Lords Rt Hon Sir Vincent Cable , former Lib Dem Leader Janice Turner Victoria Collins MP As a young black man born and ...
In Ludlow last month I saw the failure, 12 years after a stretch collapsed, to repair its town walls as a metaphor for national malaise. (The photo above shows a section in a better state of repair.) Now BBC News reports that the charitable trust that used to care for Ludlow's town walls is re-forming and will begin raising money to assist local authorities in carrying out the repairs: "This blot on our landscape has been left unattended and it's now presenting a risk of further collapse," claimed Colin Richards, chair of the trust. "What we're trying to do as ...
The Office of Budget Responsibility estimates that the most recent 2% cut in National Insurance, in the run up to the General Election, will cost an average of £10.3billion per year over the next ten years. If one adds to that the previous 2% cut in National Insurance (a few months earlier) that would explain the £22billion short fall in public finances identified by the Government. Presumably, the previous Government hoped to recover this "pre-election give away" by growth and, more particularly, the frozen tax free personal allowance which the Office of Budget Responsibility estimated would raise £35.7billion by 2028/29. ...
Fraser's weekly ward surgeries take place later today and every Tuesday during school term time. They are as follows : Tuesdays at 5pm prompt - Blackness Library Tuesdays at 5.45pm prompt - Ancrum Road Primary School All residents welcome - no appointment necessary.
The Guardian reports that a landmark study has uncovered corruption "red flags" in government Covid contracts worth more than £15bn - representing nearly one in every three pounds awarded by the Conservative administration during the pandemic. The paper says that the analysis by Transparency International UK billed as the most in-depth look yet at public procurement during the crisis, warns that systemic bias, opaque accounting and uncontrolled pricing resulted in vast waste of public funds on testing and personal protective equipment (PPE). They add that the review of more than 5,000 contracts across 400 public bodies identifies 135 high-risk contracts ...
