
Deputy Lord Mayor Blackmore!
Western Park Councillor Roger Blackmore was elected Deputy Lord mayor last night.
Western Park Councillor Roger Blackmore was elected Deputy Lord mayor last night.
Folkestone East ward Councillor Anthony Dunning has resigned from the Liberal Democrats, and the Liberal Democrat group on Shepway District Council. Anthony's stated intention, laid out in a letter handed to the leader of the Lib Dem group following the Shepway Council AGM on 14 May, is to join the Conservatives.
Stockton South Liberal Democrats have selected Jacquie Bell as their candidate for the next Parliamentary election. Jacquie, a qualified social worker, is an experienced campaigner with family living on the nearby North York Moors.
When the Labour Government asked local councils to send in their views on future procedures for petitions and "calls for action", Epsom's Lib Dem councillors were happy to give an opinion.
Scarborough and Whitby Liberal Democrat PPC, Tania Exley-Moore welcomed Vince Cable's robust reply to the news that the Chancellor has finally seen the light and recognised the harm he has done to the lowest paid.
Liberal Democrats on North Yorkshire County Council have re-elected Councillor Bill Hoult as their Group Leader.