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20 Most Recent News Stories
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Mon 2nd Aug 2010
Bishop's Stortford Liberal Democrats have slammed the use of tax-payers' money on a new dog training facility that opened in Southern Park on 27th July. If we were in a time of affluence, and not in a recession, the training course would be useful and fun both for the dogs and their owners - and the LibDems may well have backed it.
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Wed 21st Jul 2010
Local LibDems continue to have severe reservations about the initial design proposals by Hendersons for the redevelopment of the Council offices and the Causeway car park (Old River Lane development).
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Wed 21st Jul 2010
There is the opportunity to sign a petition at the end of this article.
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Wed 21st Jul 2010
Cllr. Mike Wood, Town and District Councillor and leader of the Bishop's Stortford Liberal Democrats, has achieved a break-through by bringing some common sense to a local problem.
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Tue 13th Jul 2010
Lib Dem Euro MEP Andrew Duff has welcomed the decision announced yesterday by the European Union to invest £ 450 m in Ford's research facility at Dunton in Essex.
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Wed 7th Jul 2010
Welcoming the decision of the European Parliament today to set up the new European External Action Service, Andrew Duff, Liberal Democrat MEP for the East of England, called for the EU to start a real debate on the content of foreign policy. "Now we have Europe speaking with one voice, we have to decide precisely what it is we want to say", he told the Parliament's plenary sitting in Strasbourg. "What we now need is an argument. If we fail to compare, contrast and contest each other's national foreign policies there will never be a common foreign, security and defence policy."
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Wed 14th Apr 2010
Nick Clegg has launched the Liberal Democrat General Election manifesto. The manifesto sets out four clear priorities of fair taxes, a fair chance for every child, a fair economy, and a fair deal by cleaning up politics.
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Mon 29th Mar 2010
The first ever TV debate between the three candidates to be the next Chancellor has seen Lib Dem Vince Cable win a clear victory. In a Channel 4 on-line poll carried out immediately after the debate, Vince out-polled both Alistair Darling and George Osborne.
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![Vince Cable [Photo: LDD Pics]](/images/sites/217.160.173.25-3e54d75166df56.63810547/thumbs/316.jpeg "Vince Cable [Photo: LDD Pics]")
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Sun 28th Mar 2010
At 8pm on Monday 29th March, Channel 4 will stage a live debate between the would-be Chancellors, Liberal Democrat Vince Cable, Labour's Alistair Darling and Conservative George Osborne. Krishnan Guru-Murthy will be asking the questions.
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Thu 11th Feb 2010
European Parliament rejects SWIFT interim agreement -
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Tue 9th Feb 2010
East of England Liberal Democrat MEP Andrew Duff has voted in favour of the election of the new European Commission today.
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Tue 9th Feb 2010
Sir, The withdrawal of UK government support for the College of Europe in Bruges is worse than it looks (report, February 4). Even with the bursaries British students are already very few and declining.
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Tue 9th Feb 2010
"Europe faces its worst financial crisis since the foundation of the euro. In his speech today and in his actions tomorrow, President Barroso has no excuse not to act", says Andrew Duff, President of the Union of European Federalists.
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Mon 8th Feb 2010
Following a visit to the Ware campus of Hertford Regional College, the Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for Hertford & Stortford has been outlining his party's plans to boost education funding across the county.
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Tue 19th Jan 2010
Andrew Duff MEP (UK, Liberal Democrats), Liberal Democrat spokesman on constitutional affairs and the Constitutional Affairs Committee spokesman on the Commissioners-designate hearings, has welcomed Rumiana Jeleva's withdrawal from consideration as Bulgaria's Commissioner-designate.
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Tue 12th Jan 2010
See the European Parliament Live Broadcast here;
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Wed 9th Dec 2009
"If the European Council (10-11 December) agrees a draft protocol on the appointment of French national MPs to the European Parliament, the ALDE Group will insist on the holding of a new Convention", claimed Andrew Duff MEP (UK Lib Dems), ALDE spokesman on constitutional affairs.
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Fri 27th Nov 2009
The announcement of EU Commission President Barroso's proposed new college of Commissioners has been welcomed as a boost for Liberal Democrat policies in Europe and a confirmation of the Conservatives' irrelevance.
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Thu 19th Nov 2009
Liberal Democrat Constitutional Affairs spokesman Andrew Duff MEP (East of England) and delegation Leader Fiona Hall MEP (North East of England) have welcomed the conclusion to the appointment process for Europe's 'top jobs".
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Wed 11th Nov 2009
The European Liberals and Democrats welcome the launch of the consultation process today by the European Commission with the publication of the Green Paper on Citizens' Initiative, relating to the implementation of article 11, paragraph 4 of the Treaty on the European Union. This represents in the eyes of the ALDE Group, real progress in participatory democracy in Europe.
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