Cornwall Council's Conservatives and Liberal Democrat groups have revealed alternative budget plans which they say can allow council tax to be frozen.
Health care bosses said they would "engage with other groups to create alternative proposals that would be more sustainable in the long-term".
Radical student groups still provide one alternative for those disillusioned with the official reform parties but, says Mahmud, the atmosphere on campus is not what it used to be.
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They also bear particularly harshly on certain groups who may have no alternative to using their cars.
Conservation groups have long claimed that alternative isn't working, and point instead to dam removal as the ultimate solution to restoring the region's salmon and steelhead.
But the Willis judgment is still a long way off, and pressure groups will not complain too loudly if the alternative to discrimination is lower benefits.
Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine at Exeter University, says it is well known that alternative therapies can have side effects, especially in vulnerable groups like children.
She is now living in Manila putting her financial and business development acumen to work to develop alternative building materials and modular housing systems for low income groups.
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Some consumer groups are too quick to assume the only safe alternative to a problem is to ban a product, and they are not receptive to any innovative fix a manufacturer may develop.
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NGOs play a critical role as education advocates, alternative service providers and the voice of hard-to-reach groups.
Groups of Independents have grown in recent years as an alternative to the traditional Labour control of the mining communities of Wakefield, Barnsley and Doncaster.
BRAC, a large development organization formerly known as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, is among the groups that have pledged to assist by providing prosthetics, access to financing and alternative skills training.
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