A move by Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats to attract councillors from a wide range of backgrounds is to be discussed publicly with a view to forming a county council policy.

The group has been invited by the Tory-led administration to produce a report increasing the diversity of elected members by holding a quarter of council meetings out of office hours and organising training in the evenings.

Angry Liberal Democrats have attacked Tory plans to spend £375,000 of developer's cash on promoting the Guided Bus while ignoring pedestrian safety and cycling improvements.

They say the promotional campaign for a service that is out of reach for many residents is "scandalous".

The move came in draft proposals for how to spend developer's contributions received by Cambridgeshire County Council for the Cambridge University North West site development.

A Cambridgeshire County Councillor's campaign to get a fairer deal for part-time university students under the government's education loans scheme cleared another hurdle on 1 November 2011.

In the House of Lords, the government agreed with the Liberal Democrat amendment for the move, clearing the way for it to be written into the government's Education Bill and become law. It was then also supported cross-party in the Lords.

A controversial decision to raise county councillors' allowances by 25 per cent has been thrown out after it was found that the process was flawed.

Mistakes made by the Tory-run Cambridgeshire County Council have wasted over £5,000 of public money and means the whole process must go back to square one.

Cambridgeshire Lib Dems' countywide campaign to overturn the increase in councillors' allowances is gathering pace and their petition has jumped from 1,000 to more than 3,000 signatures in just four days.

A weekend of campaigning in Cambridge City and Ely as well as ongoing activity around the county has raised the number of signatures on paper alone to over 2,000. Signatures online had taken the total number over the 3,000 mark.

Liberal Democrats from around the East of England launched at their regional conference held at Cambridge Regional College, the campaign to reverse the 25% increase in councillor allowances that has outraged local people.

In his keynote speech to the Liberal Democrat Conference, Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has outlined his goals for the Government and the country over the coming years. He reiterated his commitment to liberal values on the environment and human rights and his determination to ensure a fair chance for every child, saying "every child can do good things, great things, if only we give them the opportunities they deserve."

Residents living around Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital are facing the growing problem of patients parking near their homes to avoid paying parking charges.

Cars lining the streets caused problems for a fire engine trying to reach an incident recently.

Worried councillors have been lobbying the Tory-run Cambridgeshire County Council calling for action; but despite the problems, it has failed to agree a parking review.

Leading Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats have welcomed the Dilnot Commission's report on long term care but fear that it may bring little improvement for the county's elderly and vulnerable.

The report recommends a cap on the amount people will have to spend on care and comes in the same week that the Tory-run Cambridgeshire County Council has had to explain mistakes that have left some families thousands of pounds out of pocket to pay for care.