1.   Nigel Jones, who won Cheltenham for the Liberal Democrats has been named front bench spokesman on housing and local government.

2.   But Harold Tomlins, county councillor for the area and Labour spokesman on social services, says residents have got hold it wrong.

3.   Darlington could become a regional centre of excellence for nursery nurse training under a Labour government, the shadow spokesman on childhood services said yesterday.

4.   Mr Alan Milburn visited the college on Monday with Ms Hilary Armstrong, Labour spokesman on education and candidate for NorthWest Durham.

5.   REGULATIONS covering the carrying of knives in Scotland must be brought into line with those in England, the shadow Scottish spokesman on home affairs said yesterday.

6.   As the leading spokesman on public health, Satcher advocated for reducing disparities in medicine.

7.   At the time he gave the Birmingham speech, he was the spokesman on defense matters for his party, which was out of power.

8.   At the White House, Lanny Davis, the spokesman on campaign finance matters, said the hearings had left the president so far unscathed.

9.   A company spokesman on Tuesday insisted everything was on the up and up.