Wolverhampton Council have approved a Council Tax increase of 4.5%. The Liberal Democrats again called for Council Tax to be scrapped and replaced with a fair form of taxation - A Local Income Tax.
Andrew George M.P., The Liberal Democrat Shadow Fisheries Minister and Mike Treleaven, Totnes Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidate will be meeting Rick Smith, Chairman of Brixham Trawler Agents to discuss the current state of the fishing industry in Brixham. This replaces the meeting scheduled for 28th. February that Mr. George had to postpone due to urgent Parliamentary business.
Totnes Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Mike Treleaven will be travelling to Harrogate this weekend for the Lib Dem Spring Conference, probably the last conference before the next General Election. Delegates will be debating issues of great relevance to Totnes, particularly relating to affordable and sustainable housing, council tax, post office closures, improving life for the elderly and reducing crime. Speaking before he left for Harrogate Mike Treleaven said:
Lib Dems Lynne Apedaile, Colin Leckonby, 2 Conservative Councillors and one Independent Councillor attended a consultation meeting for councillors on Tuesday 1st March.
Today, Parmjit Singh Gill, Member of Parliament for Leicester South met students from Leicester and De Montfort Universities and Leicester College at the Palace of Westminster. This comes on the day the National Union of Students (NUS) hosted a meeting in Parliament on Further and Higher Education. This event brought together student officers from across the UK. Discussions focused on their concerns and grievances for Higher Education and the Governments decision in introduce University Tuition and Top-up fees.
The Strategic Rail Authority has, in its Route Utilisation Strategy, proposed the Wolverhampton to Walsall rail service be axed. This does not come as a surprise to Wolverhampton South West Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Colin Ross who, as a regularly user of the service, said "I have felt the passengers were been softened up for this, the service has in fact been a rail replacement coach since the New Year."