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LDVideo: Nick Clegg visits Sheffield Forgemasters, launches £950m regional growth fund

By Helen Duffett | Published 31st October 2011 - 6:53 pm

Video also available at the Guardian website. Transcript below.

Nick Clegg travelled to Sheffield today to launch a £950m regional growth fund, including a £36m government loan to Sheffield Forgemasters.

From the BBC:

Deputy Prime Minister and Sheffield Hallam MP Nick Clegg said it would support apprenticeships and equipment.

The coalition had cancelled an £80m loan to Forgemasters to build parts for nuclear power stations as part of a review of Labour’s spending decisions.

Forgemasters said the newer, smaller loan would be used to prepare for

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Posted in Lib Dem TV, News | Also tagged forgemasters, nick clegg, regional growth fund | 7 Comments

Shaffaq Mohammed writes: From a boy in Kashmir – to Leader of Sheffield Lib Dems

By Shaffaq Mohammed | Published 26th May 2011 - 3:20 pm

On election night in Sheffield, we had a painful evening, losing hard-working local councillors and good friends. They were defeated by a protest vote against the tough decisions forced upon the Government by the financial mess they inherited from Labour.

When we entered the general election, we understood the seriousness of the financial crisis the country faced. We knew that whoever entered Government after the election faced a difficult first few years. Yet, as Liberal Democrats we took a brave decision to enter a coalition in the national interest and we must stick to our five year commitment. One thing the people of Sheffield do not want is a return to the 1980s.

I know first hand what it was like to grow up in Sheffield in the 1980s. My father, a steelworker, was made redundant by the actions of the Thatcher Government.

Posted in Op-eds | 3 Comments

Nick Clegg’s speech in Sheffield on the difference that Liberal Democrat councils are making

By Nick Thornsby | Published 20th April 2011 - 12:55 pm

On Saturday, Nick Clegg delivered a speech to local party activists in Sheffield on the difference that Liberal Democrat councils across Britain are making. It’s a good speech which expands on many of the examples that we started to hear at conference in Sheffield last month about how Liberal Democrat councils are using innovative techniques to keep service and job losses to a minimum in these difficult financial times.

Here’s the speech in full:

The Liberal Democrats have a long, proud and successful history in local government.

We run some of the nation’s biggest cities and some of the most effective councils across

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Posted in News | Also tagged local elections, Local government, nick clegg | 9 Comments

What’s in the bag?

By The Voice | Published 11th March 2011 - 8:17 pm

Hello from Liberal Democrat Conference in Sheffield.

Many of you will have been to party conference before. Many of you will have experienced the delights of the goody bag attendees receive. To help Liberal Democrat Voice bring you the true conference experience even if you can’t make it here yourself, Will Howells – you may remember him from such blogs as this one – has made us a quick video checking out his junk. Enjoy.

Posted in Conference, YouTube | Also tagged #ldconf, junk, unboxing, video, will howells | 5 Comments

Clegg shows Sheffield he’s up for the fight

By Helen Duffett | Published 22nd February 2011 - 4:28 pm

Nick Clegg’s visit to Sheffield yesterday included the first in a new series of town hall meetings – this one in partnership with local newspaper the Sheffield Star:

THEY say the best form of defence is attack, which is exactly what Sheffield Hallam MP and the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg decided to do by launching a new wave of meet the people sessions, here in his home city.

Mr Clegg is the first to admit he is under fire at the moment. He faces a barrage of criticism about his decision to renege on his promise not to vote for

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Posted in News | Also tagged AV, electoral reform, nick clegg, sheffield star | 31 Comments

Paul Scriven writes: we cannot let Labour off the hook on Council cuts

By Paul Scriven | Published 14th February 2011 - 2:11 pm

Just like all local authorities up and down the land, Sheffield is facing the biggest reduction in our budget for many years as a direct result of the reckless spending carried out by the previous Labour Government. Not quite the ‘post Soviet meltdown’ predicted by Sheffield’s Labour MPs, but a reduction none the less.

Setting the budget has not been an easy process. Colleagues and I have been agonising over what to de-prioritise and what to protect, listening to what local people tell us they value the most whilst ensuring that the vulnerable in our community are protected.

I know that …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged council budget, council tax, cuts | 52 Comments

Lib Dem leader of Sheffield Council wins top European honour

By Helen Duffett | Published 16th November 2010 - 11:18 am

Paul Scriven, the Leader of Sheffield City Council, has won a Europe-wide award for the work he and his Liberal Democrat colleagues have done to put power into the hands of Sheffield people.

The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe held their Leader Awards last night, “recognising the work of outstanding local and regional liberal and democrat politicians.”

Cllr Scriven received the Achievement in Local Government Award. Others up for award included local politicians from France, Croatia and Holland.

Since Paul became the Liberal Democrat Leader of the Council in 2008 Sheffield has seen a raft of new ideas to devolve …

Posted in News | Also tagged ALDE, community politics, paul scriven | 3 Comments

Sheffield slaughter? Not this week

By Iain Roberts | Published 27th August 2010 - 7:10 am

Labour pundits were eagerly predicting the Lib Dems would be slaughtered in a Sheffield local by-election yesterday, and would simply be hoping to avoid coming last. The reality was a little different.

Labour comfortably held on to their safe Woodhouse seat, with both them and UKIP taking votes from the Conservatives, who were pushed into fourth place, just a few votes ahead of the BNP.

The Lib Dems came a clear second place, with the party’s vote down just 0.5% on the May result, and well up on every other election in the last few years, as Labour struggled to …

Posted in Council by-elections | 32 Comments

Councillor is arrested after drugs incident

By Mark Pack | Published 5th December 2009 - 6:20 pm

From the Sheffield Star:

A WELL-KNOWN councillor and former leader in Sheffield’s war on crime has been arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs.

Sheffield councillor Mazher Iqbal, a prominent member of the city council’s Labour shadow cabinet, was one of two men arrested in the Handsworth area on suspicion of possessing a controlled drug.

He has been released on police bail while officers carry out further investigations.

You can read the full story here.

Posted in Opposition watch | Also tagged mazher iqbal | 7 Comments

Local Solutions 2009 – Paul Scriven on the Sheffield story

By Alex Foster | Published 23rd June 2009 - 11:00 am

This the second in our series of podcasts of recordings made at ALDC’s Local Solutions 2009 conference on Saturday in Sheffield. You can listen to Nick Clegg and Ros Scott in the first instalment.

For the second hour, the leader of Sheffield city council Cllr Paul Scriven gave delegates a detailed explanation of how the Lib Dems won Sheffield – and most importantly of all, what they did with the power once they had it. It’s an inspiring story of decentralisation and empowerment of the local citizenry and is well worth forwarding around any of your colleagues who …

Posted in Podcasts | Also tagged aldc, local solutions, paul scriven | 5 Comments

Local Solutions 2009 – Nick Clegg and Ros Scott

By Alex Foster | Published 22nd June 2009 - 11:00 am

For four mornings this week, LDV will be bringing you audio recordings of the proceedings at ALDC’s Local Solutions conference for Lib Dem councillors. One of the features of this event is to cram in as much as possible – including training sessions clashing with plenary sessions, which means many attendees themselves may not have heard the plenary. First up this morning is Saturday’s early morning session with party leader Nick Clegg MP and party president Baroness Ros Scott.

You can listen to …

Posted in Podcasts | Also tagged aldc, local solutions, nick clegg, ros scott | Leave a comment

LDV at Local Solutions 2009

By Alex Foster | Published 19th June 2009 - 2:57 pm

LDV will be represented tomorrow at ALDC’s Local Solutions 2009 conference in Sheffield. It’ll be a first outing for the exciting new Lib Dem Voice banner.

We’ll be there to help raise the profile of the site, and to ask Lib Dem councillors to write their stories up for us. We’re always on the look out to beef up our local government coverage with stories the Lib Dems at the coalface who are actually running things. Could you write a piece about an exciting Lib Dem …

Posted in Conference | Also tagged aldc, be a councillor, future solutions 2009, laura willoughby, podcast hotline | 3 Comments

News from Sheffield and Ashfield

By Alex Foster | Published 7th May 2009 - 10:31 am

Two articles drop into my inbox this morning bringing news of Lib Dem administrations on two councils north of the Trent.

Firstly Sheffield where Lib Dems are celebrating a year in control of the Council, and where the local newspaper has written a long, balanced article about what has been done in that time.

So what have the Lib Dems done for Sheffield? They have certainly been busy and, at the end of the first year, have produced a list of more than 50 decisions, ranging from multi-million pound strategies to community projects.

It wasn’t long before they were deciding to refund

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Posted in Local government | Also tagged ashfield, jason zadrozny, paul scriven | 2 Comments

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