The Annual General Meeting of the Shepway Liberal Democrats will be held on 25 November from 7.30pm at Newington Village Hall, Newington. All members of the Shepway Local Party are welcome and invited to attend. The AGM will receive reports from the last year, and elect officers, executive members and conference representatives for 2006.
Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary speaking on the latest report from DEFRA said "This report is yet another piece of hard-hitting evidence that climate change has arrived and is beginning to have a major effect on the natural world."
SUPPORTERS of Epping's Swaines Green have been praised by local conservationists for helping to secure the land for the community.
COUNCIL chiefs are being urged to employ neighbourhood wardens to keep the district's streets "cleaner and safer".
The Conservative Party has admitted that it made almost no progress at the last general election and that its policies have lost the confidence of the British people. Eight years since they lost office, they are still damaged goods, with falling poll ratings and no clear direction. Whoever becomes leader, they remain split down the middle and out of touch with the public, leaving the Liberal Democrats as the only effective opposition to the Labour Government.
An announcement was made last week that the re-setting of council tax bands in England, the first for 14 years, will be postponed as the government fights shy of a middle-class backlash from homeowners in London and the south-east.