The Liberal Democrats today confirmed their commitment to scrapping student tuition fees.

The Lib Dem Challenger in Edinburgh South - Fred Mackintosh - has welcomed the decision of his party's policy committee to renew the Liberal Democrat pledge to abolish all remaining tuition fees. Many students in Edinburgh from south of the

We need to be careful not to fall for Conservative remedies," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor.

This week's unemployment figures showed youth unemployment at a record high. Commented Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Steve Webb MP, "The Government's headline-grabbing announcements haven't even scratched the surface of the problems young people are facing in this

The Liberal Democrats have announced that they will keep their policy of abolishing university tuition fees in their manifesto for the 2010 General Election. Chelmsford Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate Stephen Robinson welcomed the news, saying, "At Chelmsford's own university and

48,000 people currently in residential care were forced to sell their homes to pay for the cost, figures uncovered by the Liberal Democrats have revealed.

At this week's full meeting of Essex County Council there was unanimous support for a Liberal Democrat motion requesting that all county councillors should make the safeguarding of vulnerable children the highest priority.

Local residents are now able to borrow 'energy monitors' for free from the library to help them save energy and cut household bills, thanks to a Liberal Democrat initiative launched by Mayor Dave Hodgson. The idea was proposed by Dave