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Charles Kennedy: dignity in retirement

Outgoing Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy will no doubt be as amused as we were by the ironic main headline on the party's website. It reads:  "Our vision: dignity and security in retirement."

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Dalkeith Country Park facing the axe

22 November. At the end of October protesters set up a tree-sit to stop the construction of the A68 Bypass, which would destroy Dalkeith’s 850 acre country park. An eviction order has been served on the protestors and trees have already begun to fall. The activists have vowed to remain in the trees until the bypass is defeated, but need support to keep the protest going. To contact Dalkeith Protest site phone 07783904369 or http://www.save-dalkeith-park.org.uk/

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National Debate on Policing?

As Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has called for a national debate on policing:  it may be worth pointing out that Red Pepper recently dealt with this issue: http://www.redpepper.org.uk/society/x-oct05-reyes.htm

Greens embrace software freedom

Oscar Reyes. Saturday 10 September was Software Freedom Day, ‘a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software’. If you can’t tell your OpenOffice from your Gimp, that’s probably not an occasion to send you wild with excitement. But it should at least catch your attention.