Surviving or thriving? is the title of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week. Run by the Mental Health Foundation – this Mental Health Awareness Week, 8-14 May 2017, looks at mental health from a new angle. Instead of looking at poor mental health it’s taking a look at why more of us aren’t thriving with […]

The Widow’s Pension is designed to help create security and safety for families when they lose a loved one. But this week it is under attack from a new wave of Government cuts. With less money being paid to widows, widowers and surviving civil partners from April 2017 onward. The changes will only effect those families […]

Newdays Pharmacy in Coley Park is under threat from the latest Conservative cuts to the national health budget. This Governments’ real terms cash cuts to pharmacies across the UK could be about to take their toll. Newdays Pharmacy which is used by hundreds of local people is facing closure, cutting off lifeline services for many […]

World AIDS Day is held across the world on 1 December. Over 100,000 people are living with HIV in the UK. Globally there are an estimated 34 million people who have the virus. Despite the virus only being identified in 1984, more than 35 million people have died of HIV or AIDS, making it one […]

Autumn Statement – Conservatives Fail To Deal With NHS Blackhole This week’s autumn statement shows a Brexit blackhole at the centre of government finance. Parliament has heard that hundreds of billions will be taken out of the economy just when we need it most. Liberal Democrats across our area and the country have been pushing the […]

Lib Dem campaigner James Moore has accused the Government of “Half truths and less than half the cash,” after it emerged that the Government is giving the NHS less than half of the £10billion it pledged before last year’s General Election. Parliament’s own Health Committee has written to the Conservative chancellor to say claiming the […]

  The UK reverts to Greenwich Mean Time at 2am on Sunday, October 30 when all clocks are turned back to 1am at that time. James said, “Most electronic devices these days will change the time for you, so you’ve no need to worry but I want to make sure residents do not miss that extra […]

For too many years our NHS has not got the investment it needs. While Brexiters claimed that the NHS will get another £350million a week when we leave Europe, this has already been shown up as another cheap con trick from Farage, Johnson and Co. to win the referendum at all costs. Yes our NHS […]