News today (Wednesday 21st February) that the £90 million Dundee Schools PPP project is about to reach its construction phase, following the completion of legal and financial agreement in the complex deal, has been warmly welcomed by the Liberal Democrats in the City Council administration.
Dundee City Council has tonight (Tuesday 20th February) frozen its council tax for the 2007/08 financial year. The Band D figure will remain at £1 211 for the second year running.
Following the incident in McDonald's restaurant in Dundee City Centre yesterday in which an 11 year old girl was shot with a pellet gun, City Councillor for the City Centre & West End, Cllr Fraser Macpherson, said, "I am very concerned to learn of this incident in the City Centre and clearly this raises the issue of the availability of these sort of pellet guns.
Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Sunday 18th February) applauded yesterday's keynote speech by Nicol Stephen MSP, Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader, in which he said the party would "to take the next major step forward".
Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Friday 16th February) backed calls by Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Menzies Campbell MP for Scottish Nationalist Leader Alex Salmond to make up his mind which constituents he wishes to serve and which parliament he wants to be in.
At the start of the Scottish Liberal Democrat Conference today (Friday 16th February), Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader Nicol Stephen MSP has sent a positive message about Scotland's future and the prospects for LibDem success across Scotland on 3rd May.