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County to Cut Social Care
The Conservatives in control of Derbyshire County Council have voted to cut the Home Care service so that many people now receiving care at home will no longer be eligible.
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"First Past the Post is not working." - Full transcript of Nick Clegg's Speech on Electoral Reform
Nick Clegg believes in AV. Photo: Getty Images
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Nick Clegg: No apologies. No regrets. No shame - He has been hounded by nine-year-olds on the school run, but the Lib Dem leader tells Matt Chorley he's convinced he is in the right
Briefly hailed as more popular than Churchill, Nick Clegg may well now be the most hated man in Britain. Effigies burnt in the street, dog mess through his letterbox, bike rides abandoned over fears…
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Results of Wasted By Election in New Mills
A by-election was held last week in the Ollersett Ward of New Mills Town Council brought about by the untimely death of by Liberal Democrat Councillor Glynn Jennings.
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Everything you need to know about tuition fees - Ahead of further protests, Jeevan Vasagar offers a guide to the government's controversial plans for university funding
Webmasters Note - this is a useful article which answers many of the questions which the rest of the press has not answered.
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Tuition Fees
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…
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Why I'm proud of the pupil premium - The pupil premium was a key Lib Dem election pledge. We must prove we can deliver it
For Liberal Democrats, one of the silver linings in last week's necessarily tough spending review was the introduction of a £2.5bn "pupil premium" to help close the unacceptable gap between the life…
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Higher Education and Student Finance - Secretary of State for Business, Innovations and Skills Vince Cable's oral statement to the House of Commons on Higher Education Funding and Student Finance
"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…
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Last chance to cut poverty by 2015" - Local MEP Bill Newton Dunn at UN Millennium Development Goals Summit
East Midlands LibDem Euro-MP Bill Newton Dunn and his MEP colleagues in New York last week urged nations of the world to "sprint to the finish line" in the race to meet global poverty-reduction…
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Ten reasons why Charles Kennedy should not join Labour - From Iraq to class warfare: why Kennedy must stay loyal to the Lib Dems.
Charles Kennedy, the former Liberal Democrat leader, has denied the accusation that he has discussed joining the Labour Party. But the story has the ring of truth about it -- certainly, many…