There was indeed mixed success for the Liberal Democrats this week in the principal authority by elections. But overall the picture looks very encouraging.
We should always drive carefully, but we should take especially care not to frighten horses. Apart from causing injury to itself a frightened, bolting horse could easily throw or otherwise injure a rider - or any nearby pedestrian.
Chiltern Railways officially opened Oxford Parkway station yesterday (October 26) as the first phase of the £320 million project to run trains between London Marylebone and Oxford.
Lib Dem peers have decided to take this step as the tax credit plans are deeply unfair and would leave three million low income people £1,000 worse off.
Conservative Councillors on the County's education committee (Education, Enterprise and Skills Cabinet Panel) have refused to support the action of the Chairman of the County's headteachers' committee (Schools Forum).
There is understandable impatience to the late introduction of broadband to the rural parts of the UK. Two months ago local Liberal Democrat county councillor, Nick Hollinghurst, was at a meeting when Microsoft's UK Director of Media & Communication referred to the "Great British Broadband Problem". However a massive extension programme costing nearly £2 billion and with funding shared between the government, the EU, industry and local authorities continues to make progress in providing connections free of charge to the householder.
