The attendance records of Wolverhampton city councillors are available on The Stirrer website today and while some councillors are clearly very active in representing their electorate, there are others who are putting in the bare minimum of effort in exchange...

This letter was in yesterday’s Daily Express … Denying us cancer drugs reveals anti-English bias So, access to drugs is generally worse in England that in Scotland and Wales, particularly if you are a cancer patient, (“Get NHS priorities right”, August 11). This situation further highlights the discrimination that people in England suffer, as we continue to pay,

Astonishingly, after nearly two years, my local councillors have deigned to communicate with me, to express their disgust at the council's decision to go ahead with plans to reduce Kingsbury Road from four traffic lanes to two. Now I know Kingsbury Road pretty well, and I know that drivers race along the stretch near the park because it's straight and flat. This doesn't seem to stop them from find...

Former deputy PM and comedian head out on a bank holiday campaign tour to 'get the heart back into the party' Last week a Tory MP branded Gordon Brown's YouTube performance a "comedy turn". Well, you ain't seen nothing yet ... Now John Prescott and the comedian Eddie Izzard are jumping on the proverbial bandwagon and boarding the Prescott Express to begin a bank holiday campaig...

The BBC reports: An "express lane" for pedestrians who want to travel along Edinburgh's Princes Street quickly without being held back by shoppers is being mooted. Tory councillor Jason Rust, said he planned to launch a motion to councillors next month with the idea to help combat "pavement rage".If a Labour or Lib Dem councillor did that, right-wing bloggers would be banging on about the "na...

The story of the weekend had to be the one brought to our attention by Colin Ross: husband and wife Tory councillors from Wolverhampton have been caught running a brothel in their house. I don't like to be too harsh: most of us, in our everyday lives, fail to live up to the ideals we express. But the gap here is larger than in most cases. The full story is in the Sunday Mirror.

Will Vince Cable’s reputation for economic foresight ever recover from today’s shocking Express revelation that the Lib Dem shadow chancellor: … received 19 reminders and warnings from utility firms and office equipment suppliers during 2005-6. His electricity and gas suppliers both threatened to cut off his constituency office over non-payment of bills. Disconnection usually

The Bank England reveals it lent RBS and HBOS £61.6bn in emergency funding in October and November 2008.

Mervyn King's private letter reveals that Bank of England data show business lending is falling, in conflict with government figures

When old maids bicycled to holy communion and men drank warm beer, the bank manager knew each of his customers. He knew whether they were honest, how stable their job was, and whether he could risk a loan to them. You could deposit money with the bank