Shepway Lib Dem Peter Carroll is urging all residents to support his campaign to safeguard the Main Post Office in Folkestone. It has emerged that 270 of the 560 Main Post Offices in the country may be closed or sold off in new plans.
In spite of a request from Dr Anne Lee to the Woking Conservative MP to ask for a vote in the House of Commons before British troops were sent out of UK control, he has not argued for this in the House of Commons. Dr Lee said "I would contend that this decision was not 'just an operational matter', it was a new and strategic decision. We have subjected our forces to a much increased risk.
The Government is deliberately creating a climate of fear over terrorism and crime to force through changes that threaten people's civil liberties," says Stephen Robinson, Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for West Chelmsford. He was speaking to a group of local student and youth members in Chelmsford and attacked David Blunkett, Home Secretary, for using a post-9/11 fear among the public to push through measures which compromised our civil liberties.
Local Lib Dems Peter Carroll and Cllr Tessa Caruana have joined local residents in their fight against the new phone mast on a building in Highfield Industrial Estate near Warren Road. The mast appeared without warning a few days ago and local people were not consulted at all.
A plan to build 800 more homes at Bolnore Village could have worrying consequences for local residents, comments Lib Dem Parliamentary Spokesman Serena Tierney.
It has been confirmed that Surrey residents have suffered the worst increases in Council Tax in the country in the last four years (39.9%). And in the last 8 years (since 1997) residents have suffered a whopping increase of 89.2%.
