We're delighted to kick off our series of talks on environmental issues with Professor David Waltham speaking about climate change.

David is a Professor of Geophysics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was one of the public speakers in the recent successful Lib Dem move to get Wiltshire Council to acknowledge the climate emergency. He is a campaigner for the Citizen's Climate Lobby and columist for Marlborough News.

The Government has dragged the country towards a disaster. While the Tories push for a deal just to avoid a party split, local plans and priorities in Wiltshire are being distorted to favour a Brexit that nobody wants.

Does anyone believe the Government's promises to end austerity? In the last year, support for local services have continued to be cut with schools and local NHS trusts suffering at every point. Despite clever words, our road budgets are being reduced, police and fire services cut while investment in social and community care is at rock bottom.

The Devizes Liberal Democrat's annual dinner is taking place at 7pm on 10th May 2019 at The Bear, in Devizes. We are delighted to have Wera Hobhouse attending as a speaker.

Please do come along and support our local party as we continue to fight for liberal values. Please also feel free to bring a guest or guests with you. They do not need to be members to attend.

World Population Day is an opportunity to put reproductive rights and issues of gender equality firmly on the global agenda. This year, period poverty must be front and centre of the conversation.

If the UK Conservative government are serious about eradicating period poverty by 2030 then they must use this opportunity to ensure ending period poverty is in the minds of every single world leader. The Conservative government have a duty to do all they can to end the injustice and stigma surrounding periods in the UK and across the globe.

When we think of great moments of political upheaval, social change and protests for justice, the images which often come to mind are marches. There is something acutely powerful about seeing so many come together to create, for one moment in time, a community of like-minded people. A crowd which passionately believes in a common cause will have its cause noticed. Marches become beacons of free speech and spawn mass movements which captivate people's attention.

I'm Benny, and I've been a Liberal Democrat since 2017 - but I never really had a chance to get particularly involved.

That changed last week when I headed up to Brecon.

I knew how important this by-election is going in - we can't afford to take it for granted. It's essential as many Liberal Democrats as possible head to Brecon and Radnorshire to support our candidate, Jane Dodds.