A pioneering scheme to give young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEETs) opportunities to get back on track launched in the East Midlands region has been welcomed.
As promised, Liberal Democrat County Councillors have been working hard monitoring the impact of a Bus Review launched earlier in the year. The bus review that the County Council conducted was designed to achieve around £750,000 of savings from public transport. It was a cross party review but the Lib Dems on the panel insisted that the panel must be reconvened at a later date to discuss the results of the public consultation.
Epsom & Ewell Borough Council has invited some 90 local organisations to consultation sessions on the current DPD Consultation which runs until 7th September. Sessions are available every Monday and Wednesday between 9am and 5pm until 7th September.
A meeting designed to launch a Friends of Epsom group has been an unqualified success.
In Hinckley and Bosworth three schools will be opening their doors this summer to help some of the most disadvantaged pupils in our area with the big step up from primary to secondary school.
Campaigners against plans by Vodafone to put a 15 metre (49 ft) phone mast on Tudor Road, Hinckley are celebrating after the plans were rejected at a meeting of Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council's Planning Committee last night. Liberal Democrat Councillors David Bill, Dave Cope, Michael Mullaney and Don Wright collected a petition of nearly 200 names from local residents who opposed the phone mast. Cllr Michael Mullaney (Lib Dem, Hinckley Trinity) spoke to the meeting and asked for the Mast to be stopped, he said "Phone masts are needed in the 21st Century, but they need to be in an appropriate place. This site on Tudor Road was totally the wrong place, not only was it in a residential area right in front of a local shop, but it was next to an existing nursing home on one side and a Care Home that is being built on the other side. It was also very near to Richmond School and the Hinckley Club for Young People." Respondong to the news County Cllr Don Wright (Lib Dem, Hinckley) said "Thank goodness common s