Tim Farron, the MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale and Chair of the House of Commons All Party Parliamentary Group on Hill Farming has issued the following statement regarding yesterday's written Ministerial Statement on the Hill Farm Allowance:
Residents in the Highfields area can look forward to making even greater use of a £5 million youth and community centre, following a decision by city councillors to put an extra £180,000 into it.
Concern about the intentions of the Westminster Labour Government over the future of Scotland's Post Office network has today (Wednesday 13th December) prompted Dundee Liberal Democrats to reiterate their call for the Post Office network to be saved from closure and cutback.
Heywood Councillor Peter Rush has vowed to fight to save maternity and childcare services at Fairfield Hospital. Maternity and Child Care Services were axed, along with Rochdale Infirmary which leaves no services in Bury or Rochdale.
It's common knowledge that as we get older we get shorter. But UK researchers have now found that men who lose 3cm or more of height as they age have an increased risk of heart attack and death. The study of 4,200 men published in Archives of Internal Medicine took into account other risk factors for heart disease and poor health.
Multiple sclerosis charities have said they are "bitterly disappointed" at a decision not to prescribe an anti-MS drug in Scotland. Both the MS Society and the MS Trust believe the drug Tysabri could help slow the progression of disability in hundreds of sufferers. But the Scottish Medicines Consortium said the economic case for the drug had not been demonstrated. The charities urged sufferers to fight for Tysabri on an individual basis.
