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Last Updated: Friday, 15 September 2006, 17:09 GMT 18:09 UK
Lib Dem conference highlights
Here are the main events to watch out for at this year's Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton:

SUNDAY 17 SEPTEMBER

1800 - Green Tax Switch rally - launching Sir Menzies Campbell's campaign for greener, fairer, simpler taxes

2100 - Lib Dem "blog of the year" awards

MONDAY 18 SEPTEMBER

1050 Speech: Michael Moore, foreign affairs spokesman

Policy motion: Stronger families, brighter futures - call for better support for new parents and families facing breakdown

1225 Nick Clegg, home affairs spokesman

1415 Independent living - call for better services for disabled and elderly people

1555 Diversity and equality

1715 Rape convictions - call for more support for rape victims and tougher action against offenders

TUESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER

0900 Policy motion: Clean and ethical investment

0930 Presentation: Scottish Liberal Democrats

0955 Speech: Chris Huhne, environment spokesman

1015 Setting small business free

1045 Fairer, simpler, greener tax

1415 Making the climate change switch: a micro solution to a macro problem

1540 Charles Kennedy, former party leader

1600 Sustainable management of water resources

1630 Your community, your choice - English local government policy paper

WEDNESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER

0900 Policy motion: Hospital nutrition

1000 Presentation: Liverpool City Council Lib Dems

1020 Speech: Vince Cable, treasury spokesman

1040 School head teachers

1120 Simon Hughes, party president

1140 Rural communities

1225 Presentation: Lord Coe, chair of London Olympics organising committee

1415 Transport and social exclusion

1500 Sarah Teather, education and skills spokesman

1520 Trust in People: Make Britain free, fair and green - report of the Meeting the Challenge Working Group

1650 End modern slavery and trafficking

THURSDAY 21 SEPTEMBER

0930 Policy motion: Human rights in the United Kingdom

1000 Speech: Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the Russian Democratic Party, Yabloko

1020 Britain's Global Responsibilities: The international rule of law - international law policy paper

1135 Sir Menzies Campbell, Liberal Democrat leader


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