by Karen Bruce on April 17th, 2007
I’m standing as the Labour Party candidate for Rothwell in the forthcoming local elections and there are some really big issues where there is a massive difference between the stand of the Lib Dems, who are the current ward councillors, and myself and the Labour Party. I hope that local people will decide who they
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by Karen Bruce on March 12th, 2007
This is one of the biggest issues for Leeds for a long time and one which many residents have told me they are concerned about . Rothwell Lib Dem councillor Steve Smith is in charge of the City Services Department which is planning to build an incinerator to burn the city’s waste. This is a major
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by Karen Bruce on February 14th, 2007
I was interested to read in yesterday’s Guardian about some of Ruth Kelly’s plans for social housing which included helping people onto the housing ladder by giving them the option to buy 10% of their council or housing association home.
More interesting is Luke Akehurst’s blog entry having seen Ruth Kelly speak on housing policy
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by Karen Bruce on July 13th, 2006
I recently spent some time in hospital and so experienced at first hand the service that the NHS offers (which is why I haven’t posted for a while). My ward was very clean and overall I was impressed by most of the people who worked at St James’s. I think that everyone who works in
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