Sandy 4 St Albans

Two alarming sets of statistics about the health of our young people have just been published in response to Liberal Democrat parliamentary questions.

The prescription by doctors of anti-depressants and other mind-aletring drugs among schoolchildren has more than quadrupled in the past decade.

And the number of children aged 15 and under being admitted to A&E departments [...]

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What a terrible result yesterday for "David Cameron’s Conservatives" – pushed back into third place in the Sedgefield by-election and falling still further behind the Liberal Democrats  in Ealing Southall.

Two constituencies, one in multicultural West London and one in Labour’s northern heartland.  Labour saw its majority slashed in both seats with Ming Campbell’s Liberal Democrats [...]

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I see on the BBC website that the Conservative candidate for the Ealing Southall by-election next week is to be described on the ballot paper as David Cameron's Conservative.  Does that mean that there are David Davies' Conservatives out there? 

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I have just been to the excellent exhibition of 1930s London Transport posters at St Albans City Museum.  Go and see it.  There are some fascinating images by some world-famous artists.  Many of the images relate to St Albans in a kinder, gentler era, including a dramatic internal view of St Albans Abbey. 

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