Hello and welcome to A Liberal View of Sheffield, where we will be covering the campaign in the run-up to the 2006 local elections, and hopefully far beyond that.

I am Liberal Democrat blogger Joe Taylor, and I will be bringing you my experiences of the highs and lows, swings and roundabouts, trials and tribulations of the Lib Dem campaign. I am also responsible for On Liberty, Online, which takes a more national perspective.

I'm also going to be looking at some of our policies for Sheffield and how they stack up against the competition.

Stay tuned...