Reform Journalist Ban: Lib Dems call for DCMS committee inquiry as Farage testifies in US on free speech Lib Dems slam Reform council as "bad Vance tribute band" and call on Farage to expel leader as local journalists banned until they 'apologise' Rennie comments on embargoed housing report Cole-Hamilton: 85 drug deaths each month is a national tragedy Operations remain below pre-pandemic levels Cole-Hamilton: SNP have ripped up promises on delayed discharges Scotland needs world class mental health services as psychological therapies target missed again Nursing and midwifery vacancies rise by more than 50% in just 6 months Reform Journalist ...
Lib Dems write to Badenoch telling her to "come clean" on allegations of made-up academic record Kemi Badenoch visit is a timely reminder for Scottish Conservatives to jump ship Landslides continue to block A83 in Argyll because of years of SNP dithering Greene: No end to ferry nightmare amid fresh delay Lib Dems write to Badenoch telling her to "come clean" on allegations of made-up academic record The Liberal Democrats have written to Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, calling on her to come clean over doubts reported in the Guardian over her claim that she was offered a place at the ...
Tue 2nd
12:32
Why the road through the Hope Valley road was closed to traffic while I was in Shropshire
I went to Bishop's Castle twice while I was on holiday in Shrewsbury. Because the A488 through the Hope Valley was closed, the buses were diverted via the road that runs through the villages of Snailbeach and Stiperstones - hairpin bends and all. This video shows what was happening in the Hope Valley. The road there was laid out in the 1830s, and heavy lorries have been taking an increasing toll of it in recent years. Heather Kidd, the local councillor who appears in it, is the Liberal Democrat leader of Shropshire Council. A page from UK Fossils tells you ...
Tue 2nd
11:44Now Reform UK's former deputy leader of Leicestershire is under investigation for treating voters
The former Reform UK deputy leader of Leicestershire County Council is under police investigation for electoral malpractice. Joseph Boam was filmed in May this year allegedly handing out ice creams from a van parked closing to a polling station on the day of the county council elections. Boam was elected to represent the Whitwick ward of Leicestershire County Council on 1 May. BBC News quotes the statement from Leicestershire Police: "The force received a report from a third party of an ice cream van outside a polling station in May 2025. "This is being assessed as to whether this constitutes ...
In my article on the ALDE delegation elections I explained about the delegates to ALDE Council up for election this autumn. The post covers the work of the ALDE delegations. Internationalism is one of the absolute core values of our party and since leaving the EU we have waged a battle to ensure that the LibDems, retain our voice and influence in European politics. I am proud that wehave been successful in maintaining ALDE as a European party - not one just focused on the EU. However there have been many voices in the EU that want to see non ...
The Indeoendent reports that a shock new poll has revealed that even a majority of Reform UK supporters now want to unpick parts of Brexit and move the UK closer to the EU. The paper says that a major YouGov survey of 2,224 voters has underlined a significant shift in attitudes to the Brexit debate and suggests that Nigel Farage's continued hostility towards the EU is not even landing with his own party's supporters: According to the findings, 55 per cent of Reform UK (previously the Brexit Party) voters want a permanent youth mobility scheme for young people in the ...
Our revised joint weekly ward surgeries take place tonight. This week they are as follows : Blackness Library (Tuesdays 5pm - every week during school term time) Ancrum Road Primary School (1st Tuesday of each month at 5.45pm during school term time) All welcome - no appointment necessary!
