Local residents in Chelmsford are being hit hard by rocketing costs and the Lib Dems are running a "Fair Deal for Britain" campaign in response. Said the Lib Dems Westminster candidate Stephen Robinson: "It doesn't matter how much you earn, all of us are paying more when we buy basic groceries, pay the gas bill or fill up the car.
Neil Matthews recently spent a day at the Folkestone Police headquarters, including a morning briefing with Chief Inspector Ivan Pickering, a tour of the headquarters and visit to the Community Safety Unit where a multi-agency approach is taken dealing with all kinds of community problems, from dog fouling to ASBOs.
Folkestone & Hythe's Lib Dem Parliamentary Spokesman Neil Matthews visited the RSPB reserve at Dungeness today with Lib Dem District Council Group Leader Lynne Beaumont.
THE main community safety concern continues to be teenage drinking and disorder in places like the Spinney, Iris Brickfield, and Paddy Freemans Park.
EDF Energy has announced it is putting up gas prices by 22% and electricity prices by 17% for domestic customers. The firm has blamed the increase, which comes into effect on 25 July, on record wholesale energy costs.
Daniel Kawczynski, Conservative MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, seems to have taken leave of his senses. On Conservativehome's Centre Right blog he accuses me of being 'the most incompetent journalist in Britain' for 'lambasting' him over the report published yesterday by the International Development Select Committee of which he is a member 'without even bothering to pick up a phone to check her facts'.