On a regular check of streetlights in Cheriton, Folkestone, Councillor Tim Prater has found and reported over 30 broken street lights and lit road bollards. Amongst others, there were lights out of action in Military Road, Church Road, Royal Military Avenue, Naseby Road, Fairfax Close, Cheriton High Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, Roman Way and Horn Street.
Thanks to insistent campaigning by Wolverhampton's Liberal Democrat Councillors and campaigners kerbside collections of plastic bottles, cardboard, garden waste and other recyclables are collected across the city each fortnight. Under the previous Labour regime there were no plans to introduce the collection of plastic bottles or cardboard.
Angry Chesterfield MP, Paul Holmes, has demanded a prompt response from the Government 3 weeks after he first highlighted the disastrous cuts in services facing councils around the country as a result of Government policy.
Liberal Democrat MP for Chesterfield Paul Holmes has today written to Gordon Brown to invite him to visit Chesterfield when he visits the East Midlands on Wednesday.
People today are struggling with spiralling debts, rising food and energy bills and unaffordable mortgages. A decade of complacency by Gordon Brown has meant that with plummeting house prices, falling growth, inflation problems and rising unemployment, the UK economic outlook has not looked so bleak since the 1990's Tory recession. So after the 10p tax fiasco and ineffective 2.5p VAT cut what the economic situation actually demands is a fairer economic future.
Sir, As the bombs continue to fall, and the rockets continue to fly the people of Shropshire have joined in a call for peace. ...