Thousands of Burmese Buddhist monks and other protesters have been marching in Rangoon despite a crackdown that has reportedly killed at least one monk. Gordon Brown has called for a UN security council meeting today on the crisis. The prime minister said: "The EU is going to look at a whole range of sanctions that could be imposed."
Local MP Tim Farron has today criticised the Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson's promise that he will make the NHS 'more personal and user-friendly' for patients. Mr Farron points out that a personalised and user-friendly NHS will be very difficult to achieve if patients have to travel many miles to their nearest hospital.
Local MP Tim Farron will be taking part in the World's Biggest Coffee Morning for Macmillan Cancer Support on Friday 28 September.
The Guardian has covered the launch of the new Folkestone Triennial, saying: "Yesterday the inaugural Folkestone triennial was announced, a public art project to involve commissions by a blue-chip line-up of artists including Tracey Emin, Mark Wallinger, Nathan Coley, Tacita Dean, Richard Wentworth and Richard Wilson from Britain, and international figures such as Mark Dion and Christian Boltanski."
Local residents and Liberal Democrat members are invited to the Annual Meeting of Shepway Citizens Advice Bureau, to be held at The Boulogne Room, Civic Centre, Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone on Tuesday October 9th 2007 at 7pm.
Consulting on possible Post Office closures will commence in May 2008. It is expected that at least 2,500 post offices across the country will close. This means that some in Rochdale may be under threat. At this stage Post Office bosses are refusing to speculate where they plan to close.
