Local MP backs 'Supermarkets Ombudsman' idea
Local MP Tim Farron has backed the Competition Commission's consultation on a 'Supermarkets Ombudsman', which would see an independent body overseeing the conduct of large retailers.
31 Oct 2007
'Home on the Farm' project seeks to provide solutions to the affordable housing crisis
Local MP, Tim Farron will table a parliamentary motion next week urging local authorities to take the lead in addressing the lack of affordable housing by adapting and converting disused or underused farm outbuildings into housing for local people.
31 Oct 2007
Farron invites Farming Minister to see damage done by FMD
Local MP Tim Farron has today written to Lord Rooker, the Minister for Sustainable Farming inviting him to come and see for himself the damage that this summer's foot and mouth outbreak has done to the farming industry in the area. Although the disease never went beyond the Surrey/Berkshire area, the national movement restrictions put in place had a knock on effect nationwide.
31 Oct 2007
New Cross-Channel Guide Boosts Winter Events
Listing more than sixty winter season events taking place in and around Folkestone and its across-Channel twin town Boulogne-sur-Mer, a new edition of 'Coast to Coast', published as a joint venture by Shepway District Council, Folkestown Centre Management and the Communaute d'Agglomeration Boulonnais, is now available from local tourist information points.
31 Oct 2007
WHERE HAVE OUR GPS GONE?
A senior Liberal Democrat, Ron Beadle, has discovered that Newcastle has lost a quarter of its GP practices in the past decade. The number of practices has fallen from 51 to 38 and the number of GPs has sunk from 156 to 148 since Labour came to power.
31 Oct 2007
Vote Now: Throwaway Shopping Bags
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats have launched an online opinion poll to gather views on the future of throwaway shopping bags. The online poll can be found at www.bedfordlibdems.org , on the right of the homepage.
31 Oct 2007