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Sun 14th Mar 2010
With the issue of bullying featuring high on the British media's agenda, the European Parliament has also witnessed its own recent shocking bout of childish, playground name-calling by UKIP's Nigel Farage MEP.
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Read "Farage behaves like school bully" in full
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Sat 6th Mar 2010
Surrey Police Authority is to hold a widespread public consultation on their plans to expand their force by about 200 new constables, paid for by cutting about 50 senior officers and relocating Police Stations to council offices and supermarkets. About 100 of the new officers would join the neighbourhood police teams of "Bobbies on the Beat". This initiative has been supported by the Lib Dem members of the Surrey Police Authority.
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Read "Surrey Police Plans for more Bobbies on the Beat" in full
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Mon 1st Mar 2010
Community First Responders (CFR's) are volunteers who respond to emergency calls on behalf of South East Coast Ambulance Service. Would you like to make a real difference?
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Read "CFR's Help to Save Lives" in full
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Sat 27th Feb 2010
Wednesday saw the launch of an "on-line" petition in parallel with the collection of signatures in Epsom High Street. A video clip has also been published showing Cllr Jonathan Lees, the Lib Dems' parliamentary candidate, talking to shoppers who stopped to support the campaign.
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Read "Continued support for Blue Badge campaign" in full
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Wed 24th Feb 2010
The new Conservative administration, following David Cameron's lead, has now proudly proclaimed a conversion to "localism" (the devolution of decision making to the lowest level) which is a complete reversal of the policies of the last Conservative government. However the first test of the new approach revealed that not much had changed.
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Read "Localism - Not a Good Start" in full
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"Anyone who wants to pass laws in this country should pay this country's full taxes and not hide behind the special offshore status of non-doms. Non-doms have to tell the taxman that their first allegiance is to another country. No-one should be a British lawmaker whose first allegiance is not to Britain. "
Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary
www.libdems.org.uk - 2 March
"I think people are entitled to expect a sensible, stable government at a time when the country is facing very, very acute choices. We take what the markets are worrying about immensely seriously. We will not take any risk with the creditworthiness of the economy. "
Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Financial Times - 3 March
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