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2011 March - February - January News Stories:

March 29

March 28

March 26

March 25

March 24

March 22

March 20, 2011

March 13

˜Hard-up council heading for £2.5 million surplus

Council using ˜timeshare sales tactics to push local schools into Academy status

Tangley Hall closure - Council spends £169,000 to save £134,000

˜Uplift will be all spin and no substance without investment

Heathfield Ward councillor votes against library

Redundancy notices issued to day centre staff before Council debated closure

Tim Farrons speech at the Liberal Democrat conference rally

Dee Doocey writes¦ Getting Olympic ticketing right

Hemmings on Goodwin

Brake and Beith quiz Cameron at PMQs

Hamwee on the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in Force of Sections 1 to 9) Order 2011

Kramer on the Postal Services Bill

Campbell and Hames quiz Hague on Libya

Chris Huhne writes¦ The economics of low-carbon

Nick Clegg: I told Cameron he was talking complete bilge

Burstow on the NHS Bill

Carman: Why Barnsley put me sixth

Sarah Teather MP writes: Seeking your views on Special Educational Needs proposals

Williams: Getting your share of the banks: giving the banks back to the People

Vince Cable: Planning Problems

Liberal Democrats: Call for a lost voice

March 6

Williams and Birtwhistle quiz Cameron

Kramer quizzes Wilcox on Apprenticeships

Kramer quizzes de Mauley on demutualisation

Clegg quizzed at DPMQs

Swinson and Hames quiz Cameron on Libya

Kramer and Newby quiz Sassoon on banking

Tonge on Palestinian prisoners

Vince Cable's Trade and industry dinner speech at the Mansion House

Williams: Why I can't support the coalition plan for the NHS

Don't miss your chance to vote in 2011 Referendum

Chris Huhne: A blueprint for our energy future (speech to CentreForum)

Nick Clegg: An Open, Confident Society: The Application of Muscular Liberalism in a Multicultural Society.

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February 27

Lord Oakeshott " the outspoken peer still up for the fight

Clegg seizes reins of green bank project

Tony Greaves writes: seeing the wood for the trees

Vince Cable on Welfare Benefits

February 19

Vince Cable on Question Time: February 17

Davey quizzed

Cable quizzed

Hames and Huppert quiz Cameron

Kramer quizzes Attlee on Heathrow

LibLink: Vince Cable " Private recovery can create growth potion

He Who Libs, Wins

Stephen Gilbert MP writes: True LGBT equality finally on the horizon

Steve Webb MP writes: Making welfare work

Royal Assent to AV Referendum Act

GLA Budget 2011: Failing to plan for the future " Liberal Democrat response

Jeremy Browne writes: Why liberals should support the Big Society

February 5

Tories urged to help force rethink on closure of Tangley dementia centre

Food waste recycling bags no longer available from libraries

Campaigners head to Heathfield for national ˜Save Our Libraries Day

Tories scramble to hide over £3 million surplus cash: national economy used as cover for unnecessary local service cuts

Parliamentary Voting Systems Bill - UPDATE

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January 30

Pidgeon on Londons expensive new buses - £1.6 million each

Chris Rennard writes: The row over the AV referendum will bring forward major changes in the House of Lords

Cable: Keynes would be on our side

Manufacturing in the UK: A Speech by Vince Cable

Heathfield Library Consultation

Vince Cable MP: 'Entrepreneurs are the future'

The review of counter-terrorism and security powers

Day Centres to close: Tories Break Pre-Election Promises By Refusing To Listen To Public Outcry

January 23

Baroness Susan Kramers maiden speech

Baroness Dee Dooceys maiden speech

Schools urged to debate and reject Tory plans for education

Council must act against unauthorised demolition of protected Victorian house

Tories spend another £150,000 on consultants

Barnes Hospital under threat of closure

ID cards to be scrapped at midnight tonight

Public consultation: Heathfield Library

January 9

Simon Hughes writes¦ Why Ive taken up a government post

Nick Clegg: A liberal approach to freedom, a British approach to freedom

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