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Sun 28th Feb 2010
Local Liberal Democrat Campaigner Tim Hartley has backed local residents calls for New Moston to have its own village or community council. His campaign, which is receiving widespread support from local residents, has recently received a publicity from the North and East Manchester Advertiser.
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Sun 28th Feb 2010
City Centre Liberal Democrat Councillors have welcomed news that new planning controls will come into force on the 6th April to restrict the use of apartments as flats in multiply occupancy. City centre living has provide very popular for students, with more and more residential apartment being rented out to students. However, long term city centre residents have become concerned at increasing complaints about noise and disturbance.
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Sun 24th Jan 2010
Labour police bosses are planning to axe the only city centre police station at Bootle Street as part of a huge cost cutting exercise. Plans revealed last week at a meeting of the Labour dominated Police Authority, will lead to the closure of the only police station in the city centre at Bootle Street, and transferred to a new facility in Newton Heath - nearly 4 miles away.
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Sun 17th Jan 2010
Parliamentary Spokesperson for the Lib Dems, Cllr Marc Ramsbottom, has warned that gay rights would 'grind to a halt' if the Conservatives won the next election. His claim is based on research carried out by the Liberal Democrats which shows that nearly a third of David Cameron's shadow cabinet voted against gay rights legislation over the last two parliaments. David Cameron himself voted against legislation to repeal section 28, which for a long time banned local authorities and schools from 'promoting' homosexuality, in 2003. Nineteen members of the shadow cabinet joined an attempt to block the Equality Bill, which included a requirement for all publicly funded bodies to promote equality.
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Wed 6th Jan 2010
Cllrs Marc Ramsbottom Damien O'Connor and local campaigner Gerry Diamond are demanding more resources for local police. Manchester Lib Dems have called on the Home Secretary to end the unfair funding formula which will mean budget cuts for Greater Manchester Police, despite figures released which show that Greater Manchester has one of the highest crime levels in the
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| Manchester Central General Election Result |
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Turnout: 29264 (42%)
58.1%
Labour: 16993 (−10.6%)
24.7%
Liberal Democrat: 7217 (+9%)
8.6%
Conservative: 2504 (−0.4%)
View the results in detail.
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| Quotes of the Week |
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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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