"Community Spirit" - a new community group for the "north" part of West End Ward, covering Ancrum, Pentland and the Cleghorn area launches tonight (Thursday 13th March) at the Mitchell Street Centre (6pm for 6.15pm). All local residents are invited.
For a number of years our Party has been a major player in the fight to secure justice for Gurkha soldiers. Despite recent concessions from the Government many retired Gurkha soldiers still suffer great injustice.
A special meeting of Folkestone Town Council on Wednesday at University Centre, Folkestone unanimously condemned the recent cut to Folkestone Fire Services and pledged to collate figures to lobby for the reinstatement of the cut services.
Lib Dem Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions, Paul Rowen MP, has branded the extra £50 for pensioners and £100 for pensioners over 80 as "not far enough". The increase was announced by Chancellor Alistair Darling as part of his budget.
Today's budget is a green cop out which kicks the difficult decisions on environmental taxes into the long grass and offers no help to the millions of hard pressed families struggling to make ends meet, according to Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg.
Today's Budget is a green cop out which kicks the difficult decisions on environmental taxes into the long grass, Nick Clegg has said. He also accused the Government of doing nothing to help millions of hard pressed families struggling to make ends meet. Among the proposals in what has been widely seen as a dull Budget are: