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Daily View 2×2: 10 December 2009

By Alex Foster | Thu 10th December 2009 - 7:48 am

Good morning and welcome to Daily View. 10th December is the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death and the first awards of the Nobel Prize in 1901. Today we also sing happy birthday to Emily Dickinson and Ada Lovelace.

The numerical elements of this post break down a little, as you’ll see.

Must-Read Blog Posts

What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers saying? Here are some posts that have caught the eye from the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:

OnePlace to rule them all

As we reported yesterday, the Audit Commission launched One Place, a website listing government inspection results of all local authorities. And reviews of their own councils have been exercising some Lib Dem bloggers since the site came back up yesterday afternoon:

Matt Davies: Labour failing Haringey residents
Suzanne Fletcher found Car seat safety in taxis more interesting than One Place
Jon Whitehouse: Essex has some of the poorest children’s services
Chris White: Tory council slammed as inadequate

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Posted in Daily View | Also tagged ada lovelace, alistair darling, audit commission, car seats, chris white, emily dickinson, essex, haringey, housing, john healey, jon whitehouse, jonathan calder, matt davies, oneplace, PBR, pre budget report, suzanne fletcher, taxis and tiger woods | Leave a comment

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