At 10am today (Tuesday 23 October), the final shortlist of four projects were announced for £50 million of Lottery money. The projects were: the Connect2 project, coordinated by the walking and cycling charity Sustrans, Sherwood Forest, the Eden Project in Cornwall and the Black Country Urban Park.
A woman in charge of an NHS trust where 90 patients died in a superbug outbreak was interviewed for the job of running four hospitals in Greater Manchester including Rochdale Infirmary. Rose Gibb resigned as chief executive of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust on 5 October before the publication of a critical report.
Paul Holmes has today criticised the Government for refusing to answer his parliamentary question on when the newly announced 140 mastiff vehicles will be delivered for frontline use by UK troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Almost half of NHS Trusts have dangerously high occupancy rates that put patients at risk of contracting superbugs, according to analysis by the Liberal Democrats. The party has highlighted the figures alongside the launch of the Florence Nightingale Charter for cleaner hospitals. High bed occupancy rates are known to be a significant contributor to the spread of superbugs in hospitals and were mentioned in the report into the outbreak of clostridium difficile at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
When: Tuesday 22nd October, 1.30-2pm
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen will be this week be part of the team questioning Assistant Commissioner John Yates over the Cash for Honour's affair. Mr Rowen is a member of the all-party Public Administration Select Committee that will be continuing their enquiry into cash for honours. Their enquiry was put on hold because of the police investigation.
