Letter from Electoral Reform Society
It's 3 days and counting to an election no one's heard of.
12 Nov 2012
News
Liberal Democrat News
Tring Town Mayor Reflects on the Losses of War after the Rememberance Day parade
Cllr Nick Hollinghurst, Tring Town Mayor, reflects at the War Memorial on the losses of war.
11 Nov 2012
Nick Clegg Announces Billion Pound Boost for Regional Growth
The £1bn third round of the Coalition Government's Regional Growth Fund was announced by Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg at the end of October. This is another massive investment in new jobs across England. It will create or safeguard thousands of jobs over the long term, benefitting around 130 projects and leveraging £6bn of private sector investment.
2 Nov 2012
Simon Wright MP - a Local MP with Far-Reaching Ideas for Green Growth
Cllr Nick Hollinghurst is seen here at the recent East of England Liberal Democrat Conference in Cambridge with Simon Wright, Liberal Democrat MP for Norwich South. Simon is passionate about green issues and environmental matters dominate most of his time in Parliament. He is a member of the Environmental Audit Select Committee in Westminster and during this last year has been active on several inquiries into such issues as: sustainable food production; wildlife crime; protecting the Arctic; measures to strengthen and deepen the Green Economy. He also participated in the Rio+20 Sustainability Conference.
1 Nov 2012
Parking revenue down as charges have been hiked
The type and number of complaints residents contact me about are a reliable weather vane of how the Council is performing. Recently my inbox has been full of emails from disgruntled residents telling me they are fed up with the current parking regime. As part of its "One Barnet" policy, the Conservatives outsourced the responsibility for parking enforcement to a private company. This was back in May. Since then residents have been contacting me regularly with a catalogue of examples of what they consider unfair penalty charge notices.
CJC
8 Nov 2012
Farron fights for 'Future...Food...Farmers' campaign
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has added his support to the 'Future... Food... Farmers' campaign launched by the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA). The campaign aims to raise the public and political awareness of the impending age crisis in the farming industry across Europe.
12 Nov 2012