Local resident Bernie Spoor is the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Sunbury Common by-election. Bernie has been married 50 years, and has lived in Sunbury for more than 40 of them.
Thirteen Brentwood councillors have put political differences aside and joined forces on this important issue as individual members to ensure that Brentwood's residents are not short changed on the proposed William Hunter Way 'cinema' deal. This is also part of a collaborative campaign to persuade the leadership at Brentwood Council to come clean and to begin to walk the walk of openness and transparency in their dealings in order that their actions start to match their rhetoric in this regard.
The Welfare Reform Act 2012 is the biggest change to the welfare system for more than 60 years. It will affect just about everybody - you'll take a direct hit if you are in receipt of benefits; you'll be affected if you are an employer; and the local economy will be depressed by a general reduction in spending. Here's Wiltshire Council's analysis of the changes, and below that is a link to a video explaining the impact in simple terms.
Epsom & Ewell's Lib Dem councillors say the Residents Association has wasted thousands of pounds on a Residents Survey just to...
This week we received the very welcome confirmation of the award of £3.1 million from the national weekly collection support fund. The grant award is in recognition of our commitment as one of the minority of councils to have protected weekly black bin collections and our plans to increase recycling and reduce waste even further.
During the very cold winter of 2010-11, Chesterfield Borough Council, then under a Liberal Democrat administration conducted a Grit Bin review. This had been extensive taking nearly a year to complete.