Labour saves the day care centres till November

Yesterday I attended the "meeting in public, not a public meeting" (as the Lib Dem chairman charmingly put it) at Morpeth County Hall where the fate of the 7 day care centres in Northumberland -- destined for closure at the hands of the Lib Dem administration -- was decided. A coalition of Labour and, yes I admit it, Tory councillors, managed to stave off the closure of the day care centres until November when the matter will be reviewed again. So the day care centres live to fight on another day, and the Lib Dems go home to lick their wounds - not a bad result, all in all.