The pressure on Bedford Borough Council's Mayor and Cabinet to remove the charge on council tax payments at the Post Office has increased further after a meeting of the full council backed a Lib Dem motion calling for its abolition.

The Government has laid before Parliament a draft of an Order which if Parliament approves it, would move the date of local elections in 2009 from Thursday 7 May to Thursday 4 June, the date of the European Parliamentary elections

The Local Party Executive for Wealden Liberal Democrats invites applications for selection as Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the constituency of Wealden.

Students, pensioners and working people are marching to the Bank of England today to make it clear to the government and the bankers that we will not pay for their crisis. Assemble outside the Bank of England at 4pm today.