"CASH FOR SILENCE"

SCANDAL ON TOXIC FUMES

Liberal Democrat Peer, Lord (Paul) Tyler today (Thursday) revealed a secret agreement between British Aerospace and two Australian airlines.  Signed in 1993, the deal saw BAe pay East West Airlines and Ansett Transport Industries some AUS$750,000 to silence the airlines about what it terms “the cabin environment problem”.

Lord Tyler has pursued this issue, with respect to BAe 146 aircraft, for seven years but  British Aerospace and Government Ministers have always denied there was a problem.  Most recently, in a 2006 written answer to him, Ministers said they were unaware of the secret agreement referred to in the Lords today.

TYLER LEADS LIB DEMS TO RADICAL REFORM PROPOSALS

Liberal Democrat Constitutional Affairs Spokesman, Lord (Paul) Tyler has led his Party in accepting a radical package of proposals for reforming Britain's political system.

In a speech to the Party's Brighton Conference, Lord Tyler said Liberal Democrats would seek to "put our outdated poltical process on a real jury trial" by establishing a Convention, half of whose members would be drawn by lot from the public, to draft a new Constitution for the United Kingdom

The policy paper also proposes immediate reform of Britain's electoral system, which Lord Tyler told delegates was responsible for "polarising our politics" and "alienating voters".  The Liberal Democrats' political opponents, he said, could not be taken seriously until they understood the impotance of reforming the electoral system.

DIAL  999……FOR  DELAY?

We need all the support we can get for the long campaign some of us have fought to seek central government recognition of the special and peculiar problems that are posed for all our emergency services by the huge increase in population – and traffic – in the holiday season.    Cornish MPs of all parties have argued for years that all four services (Fire, Ambulance, Police and Coastguards) have been under-funded by successive governments.