Local authorities are not doing enough to combat the growing problem of litter and fly-tipping according to the Campaign to Protect Rural England. It is launching a drive today for tougher action and lobbying for a new law for cash deposits on bottles. The campaign is being launched just days after councils called for legal loopholes to be closed to give them more enforcement powers. 

The planned All-Wales Convention, which will lead the debate on whether the Welsh Assembly should have full law making powers, has moved a step nearer. The Assembly’s First Minister, Rhodri Morgan, and Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones have welcomed the handing over of the report from the Establishing Committee for the Convention.
The document details the terms of reference for the Convention and suggests ways in which it might operate when it begins work in the summer. Mr. Morgan and Mr. 

A survey of attitudes to child poverty by the Child Poverty Unit, published by the Department for Work and Pensions, suggests that a significant step-change is required if the majority of the public is to be aware of the Government’s goals.
Respondents were asked about the extent of child poverty and 41 per cent thought there was very little real child poverty in Britain today, 53 per cent thought there was quite a lot.