THE fate of a key council service will be determined next week when councillors decide whether or not to hand over the management of sport centres and leisure facilities to the private sector.
A DISTRICTWIDE project which helps homeless people get into rented accommodation has received a £20,000 Big Lottery Fund grant.
PLANS for a 36-bedroom "golfing lodge" at Woolston Manor Golf Club, Chigwell, have been given the green light.
The Liberal Democrats this week set out their proposals for safeguarding British civil liberties in the face of an increasingly unaccountable and presidential-style Labour Government.
Analysis of opinion polls from January shows the Liberal Democrats scoring more highly than in any January of an election year since political polling began. Looking at all published polls, the party's average poll rating (21.6%) in January 2005 was around eight points above the average Lib Dem rating in January 2001 (13.7%) and nine points above the party's average in January 1997 (12.4%). By contrast Labour are down from an average of 50.6% in 1997 and 48.7% in 2001 to just 37.1% and the Tories score an average of just 32.1%, exactly the same as in January 2001.
Analysis of opinion polls from January shows the Liberal Democrats scoring more highly than in any January of an election year since political polling began. Looking at all published polls, the party's average poll rating (21.6%) in January 2005 was around eight points above the average Lib Dem rating in January 2001 (13.7%) and nine points above the party's average in January 1997 (12.4%). By contrast Labour are down from an average of 50.6% in 1997 and 48.7% in 2001 to just 37.1% and the Tories score an average of just 32.1%, exactly the same as in January 2001.