now the control room involved, bilston glen in midlothian, is under further scrutiny.t eight years up to march 2015, bilston glen was operating a dummy call handling system to manipulate response times, giving the appearance police performance was better than in reality. it also led to many calls going unattended. internal police documents obtained by the bbc under freedom of information reveal the practice was designed to prevent the activation of internal alarms and provide artificial levels of incident management performance. they would assign a job to the dummy call sign, and internal systems would think thatjob had been allocated to a police car and response time targets were being met. but in reality, thejob had slipped to the bottom of the controller's priority list and may end up not having a police car sent at all. the practice was stopped four months before the m9 tragedy, but the lawyer who acted for the bell family says they should have been told about it. astonished, to be perfectly honest. i think that puts the wider public at risk, if calls are not being

thousands of calls to the bilston glen control room in midlothian were given a fake call name — meaningd said the practice should not have continued after the creation of the national police force in 2014 and was stopped in 2015. the liberal democrats have accused the conservatives of making the cost—of—living crisis worse, as the party launched its campaign for local elections in england in may. the party's leader, sir ed davey, said the tory government had "crashed the economy" and added hundreds of pounds to people's monthly mortgage payments. here's our political correspondent, jonathan blake. breaking down what they call a "blue wall" of conservative support, the lib dems gave their now familiar message a rural spin to launch the party's campaign for local elections next month. hi, everybody! the theme continued, as the lib dem leader, sir ed davey, took his tractor to berkhamsted, in hertfordshire, this morning — one of many rural areas where council seats are upforgrabs. his focus, the cost of living and health services, which he claims are on the brink. well, on the 4th of may,