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Liberal Democrats are pleased that North Yorkshire has done well in the nationwide "Place Survey". However, the figures also reveal some areas of concern.
9 Jul 2009
Liberal Democrats are pleased that North Yorkshire has done well in the nationwide "Place Survey". However, the figures also reveal some areas of concern.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has slammed yesterdays defeat in the House of Commons on the vote to reduce duty on alcohol as "a real blow" to the pub industry.
Local farmers will have the opportunity to ask Energy and Climate Change Minister Ed Miliband MP to help push forward plans to build South Lakeland's first on-farm anaerobic digester after local MP Tim Farron secured a meeting with the minister.
I am surprised in this modern day that someone should believe that love should follow religious or political dictat rather than the heart. Reverend Sylvia Bareham in her contribution to the June Church Newsletter has presented an intelligent and articulate argument against the Monarch being allowed to marry a Catholic, but there are other issues that she has skirted around which perhaps need also to be addressed.
Windsor's MP Adam Afriyie has hit back at 'hostile political opponents' who have cast doubts over whether he really lives in the town.
An independent survey of social housing allocation explodes the myth that new immigrants jump the queue for social housing. The research, commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, found that less than 2 per cent of social housing tenants had arrived in the UK within the past five years, while the proportion of those born abroad living in social housing was almost identical to the proportion of social tenants born in the UK.