Schoolchildren across south Lakeland are being invited to help win 'Fair Trade' status for their schools. This week MP Tim Farron will begin a series of visits to local schools to talk to pupils about fair trade.
Local MP Tim Farron has received an assurance that the closure of the post office branch on Kirkland in Kendal is only temporary.
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen would hold his Rochdale seat if a general election was to be held now, according to the largest ever study of marginal seats.
An event to be held on Saturday 4th October at Bourne Hall seeks to attract over 1000 local young people.
Gurkha Justice campaigner Peter Carroll has issued an plea for evidence to back up the legal team representing the Gurkhas in the current High Court hearing on the lawfulness of the 1997 'cut off' date for citizenship. The case received huge coverage earlier this week when Joanna Lumley and others gave their backing to the cause.
Oxfordshire County Council became the first County Council in the UK to sign the EU Charter for Equality between men and women in local life after Liberal Democrat Group Leader Cllr Zoé Patrick urged this with a motion in June. Liberal Democrats in Opposition at the County Council were aware of the importance of being seen to sign up to this important Charter as much work was going on behind the scenes.
