Following the ruling in Oldham East and Saddleworth, which found former Labour immigration minister and current shadow immigration minister Phil Woolas guilty of knowingly making false statements during the 2010 general election campaign, Elwyn Watkins said: "This verdict is a historic victory for the people of Oldham East and Saddleworth, a victory for fair play and a victory for clean politics. Anyone who knowingly lies to the voters or looks to set constituent against constituent has no place in a democracy. I hope this judgment makes it very clear that if you deceive your constituents you should be kicked out of Parliament."

The Lib Dems' East Midlands Regional Conference discussed university tuition fees on 30 October, and the following motion as proposed by myself (Sam Boote, parliamentary spokesman for Rushcliffe)and amended by Daniel Jones was debated:

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Conference deplores the decision of the Business Secretary and of the Coalition Government to allow tuition fees to rise and calls on the Deputy Prime Minister and his Liberal Democrat colleagues in the Cabinet to honour the pledge in the election manifesto of May 2010 to scrap university tuition fees for all students taking their first degree including those studying part-time (saving them over £10,000 each) and immediately to scrap fees for final year students.

POLICE in the High Peak are handing out free posters to discourage trick or treaters from calling on residents. People who don't want to be visited can display the posters in their front room windows or doors. Officers are also giving posters to shop keepers which tell customers that eggs and flour will not be sold to anyone under the age of 16.

European Convention on Human Rights: 60th Jubilee Celebration - Organised by Amnesty International in the Matlock area on November 6th, 1-30 for 2 pm - 5 pm, Methodist Church Hall, Bank Road, Matlock (parking diagonally opposite at County Offices)

The European Convention: history and the rights it protects and The UK Human Rights Act: acceleration and deepening of protection, respectively by Scorcha MacLeod and Dr.Tom Lewis, lecturers on human rights law, Sheffield & Nottingham Trent Universities.

1) Can we keep the lights on? - Public Meeting - all welcome - organised by Derby Climate Coalition.

Peter Harper, Head of Research at the Centre for Alternative Technology, introduces the Centre's new report "Zero Carbon Britain 2030 which shows how this might be done and opens the discussion on turning this vision into reality.

There has been a lot of talk over the last few months about the Coalition's plans for social housing. Much has been written, and most of it has been wrong, This piece is intended to explain what we are actually doing, rather than what the Labour party, and their friends in the media want you to think we're doing.

Today's Comprehensive Spending Review involved some very difficult decisions that we had to take to deal with the black hole in public finances left to us by Labour. But it shows the character of this coalition government that, while making these difficult decisions, we have done everything we can to protect frontline services, help the most disadvantaged and accelerate social mobility.

"With permission Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the future funding of higher education and student finance, in the light of the report published today of Lord Browne's independent inquiry.

Lord Browne was asked to undertake his review in November last year. The review was set up by Labour on a cross-party basis, and that is how we want to proceed.

Police are urging caution after reports of companies using high pressure tactics to sell mobility products to older and more vulnerable residents.

The warning follows complaints to council and trading standards services in Nottingham, but officers in the High Peak and Derbyshire Dales are concerned that companies may also target residents in the area.

"Liberal Democrats have long campaigned to reform the Housing Revenue Account subsidy and replace it with a fairer system. We've now been able to deliver on that pledge in government." The unpopular "Tenant Tax" will be scrapped, with local authorities being allowed to keep all council house rents and sales receipts they collect to reinvest in social housing, under plans announced today by the coalition government.