10-Year rail funding reaction – Labour showing contempt to Wales Greene criticises potential closure of Scottish bus builders Rennie: Swapping around a few ministers won't erase SNP failures 10-Year rail funding reaction – Labour showing contempt to Wales Responding to Labour's announcement that the £445 million they announced for rail funding this morning will, in fact, be spread out over 10 years, Welsh Liberal Democrat Westminster Spokesperson David Chadwick MP said: Labour's contempt for Wales just gets worse and worse. The indefensible decision to spread this measly amount of rail funding over 10 years not only robs Wales of what ...
[IMG: A factory building in Fleckney] Nina Stibbe, another member of the Market Harborough school of literature, once wrote about Fleckney in the Guardian: Fleckney became industrialised in the late 19th century when hosiery companies fled the city. Rowley & Co, whose Leicester works had been stormed by weavers in riots in 1885, built a factory on Saddington Road. Its red brick design included a high wall along the street for protection in the event of further unrest. This wall (itself now protected) reinforces Fleckney's identity as working-class compared with its more cottagey neighbours. Leicester's second best pop, Furnival's of ...
"Smoke and mirrors" spending review could leave a blackhole for social care Police funding short-fall as families face council tax bombshell to pick up the tab Spending review: Reeves has put farmers "at the back of the Treasury queue" Welsh rail funding announcement - Wales getting the scraps again Lib Dems comment on defence, Acorn, supercomputer in spending review "Smoke and mirrors" spending review could leave a blackhole for social care Responding to the spending review, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said: This spending review was a missed opportunity to repair the damage done by the Conservatives and ...
The Liberal Democrats have reacted to the Spending Review. Daisy Cooper has warned that Rachel Reeves may have left a black hole for social care funding. This is based on local government having their funding cut by 1.4% during the period of the review. Councils have a statutory duty to provide social care and this does not help them. This spending review was a missed opportunity to repair the damage done by the Conservatives and finally deliver on the promise of change. Behind the smoke and mirrors is a potential blackhole for social care as local government budgets remain at ...
Jeff Buckley died at 30, his father Tim at 28. I felt sorry for Jeff, often discussed with reference to a father who hardly bothered with him. But Tim Buckley was a brilliant musician. Here he is on The Old Grey Whistle Test, with Charlie Whitney from the Leicester band Family one of those backing him.
Lord Bonkers continues to be untroubled by issues of low self-esteem. Those ubiquitous - and least on his estate - birds the hamwee and the wheway are named after Sally Hamwee (now a Liberal Democrat peer, but a Liberal councillor in Richmond when I first came across her) and Rob Wheway, a Liberal activist from Coventry. Wednesday You find me sousing in a deckchair and enjoying the view across my gardens to the moat. Swifts swoop low across the lawn, snapping up insects to feed their young in nests under the eaves of my stables; flocks of hamwees and wheways ...
Yesterday Ed Davey and his wife Emily, who is also the Housing Portfolio holder at Kingston Council, went on This Morning to talk about Ed's book, Why I care and why care matters. which you can buy from the publishers Harper Collins or from other bookstores. They talked about their own experience of caring for their disabled son John and about why supporting family carers is so important. Without them, the NHS and social care would literally fall apart. You can see the whole interview on ITVx or STV Player or watch this clip: "If we can support family carers ...
Today Rachel Reeves announces her spending review. What are Liberal Democrats looking for from it? It will surprise nobody to hear that social care is top of the agenda, alongside a closer relationship with Europe. Without the latter, Treasury Spokesperson Daisy Cooper says, Labour will be trying to drive the economy forward with the handbrake on. And anyone who has tried to do that in a car will know how impossible that feels and how much of an idiot you feel when you realise that you have forgotten to take the handbrake off. Daisy said: People have been left desperately ...
Dundee Cinéma les Auteurs is a unique 3-day event dedicated to celebrating the creativity bubbling within our city. It offers a platform for filmmakers of all levels to share their stories with a local audience. It is taking place at The Vine, 43 Magdalen Yard Road. You can read full details at https://sites.google.com/view/dundeecinema - all welcome!
The Guardian reports that more than 300 Foreign Office staff have been told to consider resigning after they wrote a letter over fears the government had become complicit in Israel's alleged war crimes in Gaza. The paper says that this is the fourth internal letter from staff about the offensive in Gaza, which started in October 2023 in response to Hamas's deadly attack on Israel: In their letter of 16 May the staff, from embassies around the world and at various levels of seniority, questioned the UK's continued arms sales and what they called Israel's "stark ... disregard for international ...
