Liberal Democrat Treasury minister Danny Alexander has today (Monday 19 January) welcomed the EY ITEM Club report which forecasts encouraging signs of economic growth.
The report forecasts that in 2015, GDP will grow by 2.9 per cent.
Commenting on the EY ITEM Club winter forecast, Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said:
"This EY ITEM Club Forecast confirms we are making substantial progress in delivering the stronger economy needed to secure a fairer society.
"Falling oil prices act like a giant tax cut to the economy and will further boost our already established recovery. But the full benefits will only be felt if every last penny of the oil price fall is passed on to consumers in full and quickly.
"That's why, as the Liberal Democrat Treasury Minister, I am relentlessly pressing airlines, petrol retailers, bus companies, package tour operators and a host of others to cut prices as much as possible right now.
"Consumers felt the pain when oil prices were high. It's only fair that they, and the economy, should feel the full benefit when they are falling."
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Sedalia writers, artists, family and friends attended a memorial service for local author, activist, journalist and Democrat columnist Rose Nolen Saturday afternoon. Nolens son, Mark Nolen, of Brooklyn Park, Minn., enters Taylor Chapel United Methodist Church with his mothers ashes for the 1 p.m. service.
Followed by family and friends, Mark Nolen, accompanied by a Sedalia Police Department escort, walked his mothers ashes down Ohio Avenue to the Rose Nolen Black History Library at 109 Lima Alley and then to Taylor Chapel UMC on East Pettis Street for memorial services.
Mark Nolen and his aunt Phyllis Montgomery, of Richfield, Minn., prepare to release balloons in honor of his mother while at the Rose Nolen Black History Library Saturday afternoon. Rose Nolen authored and published five books during her writing career that began in 1983.
To honor Nolens weekly column at the Democrat, Nicholas Cashman, left, and his brother Lucas Cashman wear Sedalia Democrat newspaper delivery bags to pass out Nolens memorial flyers at Taylor Chapel Saturday afternoon.
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A Democrat from Augusta declared her candidacy Thursday for the state Assembly in the Republican-dominated 24th District.
Jacky Stapel, 34, a first-time candidate, said the impending resignation of Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose, R-24th Dist., was the driving force behind her entry.
Stapel said she believes McHose's still-to-be-determined successor will be more vulnerable than Assemblyman Parker Space, R-24th Dist., in the Nov. 3 general election.
All 80 seats in the Assembly are on the ballot this year.
Stapel spoke to the New Jersey Herald prior to attending a meeting of the Warren County Democrats, where she was to launch her candidacy.
She said she deliberately chose Warren County for her announcement, which along with Mount Olive in Morris County makes up about 30 percent of the district.
All of Sussex County is in the 24th District.
I figured we should really get them involved. It's their district, too, Stapel said.
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