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20 Most Recent News Stories
Liberal Democrats launch policy for young people
Wed 10th Mar 2010
Launching the paper at The Salmon Youth Centre in Bermondsey, the policy outlined how the Liberal Democrats will ensure that all young people have better access to after-school facilities, comprehensive support and training for those entering the workplace and legislation in place to stamp out homophobic bullying.
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MEPs slash red tape for 9 out of 10 London firms
Wed 10th Mar 2010
The European Parliament has voted in favour of exempting struggling small businesses from producing onerous annual accounts. The amendment to EU company law would vastly reduce red tape for the smallest firms, which are 90% of the total number of businesses in the capital.
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Lord Taverne requests House of Lords investigate Ashcroft
Tue 9th Mar 2010
The Honours Scrutiny Committee withdrew its objections to Lord Ashcroft becoming a peer on the basis of his clear undertaking that he would “take up permanent residence in the United Kingdom again before the end of the calendar year”.
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Tory social care ‘poll tax’ will only help the wealthy says Lamb
Tue 9th Mar 2010
The figures, released ahead of tomorrow’s cross-party social care conference, undermine Conservative claims that their plans would enable older people to pass their homes on to their children as two thirds of pensioner households would have to sell or release equity from their homes to pay for the private insurance scheme.
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US Congress panel 'Armenian genocide' vote wrong
Mon 8th Mar 2010
London Liberal Democrat MEP Sarah Ludford, the party's European justice & human rights spokeswoman and vice-chair of the European Parliament delegation to the United States, has strongly criticised the vote by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives to label the treatment of Armenians in 1915 as 'genocide'. She said:
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Launch of the Campaign for Body Confidence
Mon 8th Mar 2010
A panel of experts including fashion writer and broadcaster Caryn Franklin and author of Fat is a Feminist Issue, Susie Orbach, will debate measures to tackle the harm caused by pressure to conform to unrealistic and unhealthy body image ideals. Other attendees include Girlguides, Linda Papadopoulous and the world’s leading body image experts.
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