This year's West End Christmas week starts next Saturday (1st December). Organised by the local community for a seventh year in a row, the event sees lots of local events. West End councillor Fraser Macpherson said, "For the seventh consecutive year, we are having a super West End Christmas Week to highlight the vibrancy of the West End and its local shops.
East Park campaigner Darren Friel says that a house in Deans Road, has been unoccupied for almost 8 years.It is overgrown, dilapidated and a Ânightmare for neighbours, the police and the fire service. The problem was discussed at the Council's ÂResources Panel back in September 2006 - yet still nothing has happened. Darren said,"Three bed roomed houses are hard to come by in this area and action is essential immediately. The Council must permit no further delay. Unfortunately, the £10m Âregeneration of East Park includes two bedroom properties only, and larger families are having to look further afield for their housing needs. This could see pupil numbers fall in our schools,which would impact on our local shops and Âamenities. Our three Labour councillors are clearly not interested."
North Cornwall's MP, Dan Rogerson, has met with residents in the West Park area of Egloshayle as part of the campaign to have the local loop bus service reinstated.
Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Saturday 24th November) said they had made "significant progress" at the Lochee Ward by-election last Thursday.
An ICM poll in the Guardian newspaper today has shown the Liberal Democrats surging in the polls and both Labour and Conservatives slipping back. The Lib Dems also seized Council seats from the Conservatives in local by-elections in Suffolk and Wales.
Former Shepway District Councillor John Spencer died on the night of Thursday 22 November. Mr Spencer served on Shepway Council from May 1995 to May 2003, as a representative for Hythe East Ward. He also served as Chair of the Development Control Committee.