The Government is under renewed pressure today to reach a decision on the future of the 8,000-strong network of rural post offices after a report by Age Concern warned that older people fear financial and social isolation if Royal Mail is forced into a widespread closure programme.
Liberal Democrats have declared that local residents deserve better after Borough Council figures for the urban area revealed that at the current rate of resurfacing it would take 66 years, almost a lifetime, for every road to be resurfaced.
A Populus poll for The Times this week asked about what people think of the parties and found that the Liberal Democrats are for the many and not the few, understands the way people live their lives and cares about the problems ordinary people have to face compared to the other parties.
As the Labour Party Conference takes place in Manchester a Labour Minister's shareholdings are being probed. Liam Byrne MP, Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill, and Home Office Minister has been forced to insist that he followed "all the correct procedures" after reports that a company he owns shares in has supplied services to police forces. Mr Byrne owns shares in E-Government Solutions Ltd, which has provided computer services to eight police forces and has had a turnover of £1.4million in the first six months of this year alone.
In the continuing investigation in to the Labour loans scandal Sir Christopher Evans, who lent Labour £1m, has been arrested and interviewed by the police. Scotland Yard has revealed that a number of people had been interviewed under caution and another number of people had been interviewed as potential witnesses.
Sir Menzies Campbell today addressed the Liberal Democrat Party Conference in Brighton, below is a copy of his speech: