http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Chris Coleman en-GB Chris Coleman http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Chris Coleman 2010-03-11T08:51+00:00 United Kingdom http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000120/nick_clegg_accuses_conservatives_of_a_crude_form_of_blackmail.html "David Cameron and George Osborne are stoking up fears in the markets, actively trying to destabilise the pound and reduce the Government's ability to borrow", says the Leader of the Liberal Democrats 2010-03-08T11:32+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000121/browns_iraq_admission_shows_he_cannot_be_trusted_says_clegg.html "How can we trust a man who still believes that this illegal war and all the horror it has caused was right?" said the Liberal Democrat Leader. 2010-03-06T09:00+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000119/tory_party_has_been_bought_like_a_banana_republic.html "The Conservatives' biggest donor is a tax-dodger from Belize," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary. 2010-03-01T13:36+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000118/battered_bobbies_miss_80000_working_days_says_huhne.html Police officers have missed nearly 80,000 days of work after being assaulted by members of the public in the last five years, according to research by the Liberal Democrats. 2010-02-22T22:23+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000117/liberal_democrats_launch_plans_to_revitalise_britains_high_streets.html Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg has today set out plans to revitalise Britain's high streets, ensure the future of the Post Office, and help small businesses establish and grow in a fairer marketplace. 2010-02-13T23:01+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000116/1300_innocent_people_on_gloucestershire_police_dna_database_since_eu_court_ruling.html The Liberal Democrats have discovered that 1,300 innocent people from Gloucestershire have had their DNA records added to the police DNA database since December 2008, when the European Court of Human Rights said the practice was illegal. 2010-02-07T09:18+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000115/osbornes_benchmarks_are_motherhood_and_apple_pie_politics_says_cable.html "The Liberal Democrats want to split up the banks so that taxpayers no longer have to underwrite reckless risk taking," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor. 2010-02-02T14:34+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000113/bring_back_local_justice.html Chris Coleman has launched a campaign to improve the quality of local justice in the Forest of Dean. 2010-01-29T09:39+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000112/tories_show_their_true_colours.html The mask carefully crafted by David Cameron to disguise the "nasty" Tories is falling to pieces in Europe. 2010-01-18T09:00+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000114/haiti_earthquake_appeal__help_needed.html Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for the Forest of Dean, Chris Coleman, has urged support for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, which is feared to have caused a major humanitarian disaster. 2010-01-15T09:00+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000110/haiti_earthquake_appeal.html The British Red Cross has launched the Haiti Earthquake Appeal. 2010-01-13T23:34+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000109/courts_can_display_more_courage_than_ministers_over_mckinnon_says_clegg.html "This is heartening news for Gary McKinnon and all of us who have been campaigning on his behalf," said the Liberal Democrat Leader. 2010-01-13T17:58+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000108/chris_dismayed_by_execution_of_akmal_shaikh.html Chris Coleman, the prospective Liberal Democrat MP for the Forest of Dean, has expressed his dismay at the decision of the Chinese authorities to execute Akmal Shaikh in the face of clear evidence that he was suffering from mental illness that meant that he would not have understood the crime that was being committed. 2009-12-29T08:13+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000111/lib_dems_in_record_results.html Liberal Democrats in the Forest of Dean have achieved record local election results 1in 2009 which mean the next General Election here could be too close to call. 2009-12-21T22:00+00:00 http://www.chriscoleman.org.uk/news/000107/byelection_to_be_held_in_mitcheldean__drybrook.html Following the sad death of local Councillor George Read MBE, a by-election will be held in the Mitcheldean and Drybrook ward of the Forest of Dean District Council. The Liberal Democrats have selected local resident Sue Henchley as their candidate for the by-election which will be held on Thursday 20th August. 2009-07-30T09:15+01:00