A group of Folkestone Town Councillors have taken action to shame Shepway Council into maintaining and cleaning its litter bins in the centre of Folkestone. Despite repeated requests to Shepway Council, the stainless steel bins in the main pedestrianised shopping centre have not been properly cleaned seemingly since they were installed, and were covered in grime, cigarette ash, stickers and worse.
Tory shadow chancellor George Osborne has announced proposals for a series of tax cuts. In his speech to the Conservative Party conference he said a Tory government would:
Local MP Tim Farron will attend a meeting with Primary Care Trust representatives about providing a specialist service for sufferers of Lymphoedema, a disease which affects thousands of people. At present there is a barely adequate service in South Cumbria for cancer sufferers who have the condition, and no NHS service at all for people with the condition who do not have cancer (who make up roughly three-quarters of sufferers).
Scarborough and Whitby Liberal Democrats are mourning the sudden death of the Constituency's Parliamentary Election Agent Dr John Stonehouse. John, an agricultural entomologist working as a Research Lecturer at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College, University of London died on Wednesday in Senegal. He had been working in the field for the European Union in West Africa since July and died suddenly of cerebral malaria the night before returning to the UK.
Falmouth and Camborne MP Julia Goldsworthy along with the Liberal Democrat candidate for Truro and Falmouth Terrye Teverson, turned out in support of 24 hour fire cover. They took part in the weekend march from Falmouth to Camborne which was organised to highlight opposition to any cuts.
Proposals to change the priority on Falmouth Sea Front will now be subject to consultation. This development follows a meeting with representatives from the local authority police and residents, called for and chaired by Julia Goldsworthy MP.
