Eastleigh Borough council have set an ambitious target for a Zero-Carbon Eastleigh Council by 2012 in order to tackle Climate Change. Climate change predictions are for hotter, drier summers with the possibility that Eastleigh could hit 40 degrees Centigrade by the middle of the century.
Lib Dems from across the region came to the Spring Conference in Scarborough last week and agreed unanimously that the conference had been a huge success. The 2007 Spring Conference was held at Westborough Methodist Church and was attended by some 150 delegates from across Yorkshire and Humberside.
News that Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader, Nicol Stephen MSP, has unveiled plans to establish an Investment and Innovation Agency if he becomes First Minister after this year's Scottish Parliament elections has today (Thursday 1st March) been warmly welcomed by Dundee LibDems.
The protection of the river environment in Bedford Borough has been placed under threat by the Council Cabinet's proposals to scrap the policy preventing harmful development along the riverside.
Street lighting in the Royal Borough is set to become cheaper and more environmentally friendly. At a cabinet meeting on Thursday last week, councillors agreed to join with four other Berkshire local authorities to buy energy for street lighting, and bring in more modern lamps to reduce the borough's carbon footprint and cut light pollution.
Commenting on yesterday's report on the Sexual Orientation Regulations by the influential Joint Committee on Human Rights, Liberal Democrat Member of the Committee, Dr Evan Harris MP said: "This report strongly supports the tough approach with very narrow religious exemptions that are found in the Northern Ireland Regulations, and rightly calls for the same regulations to be applied to the rest of the UK."
