Thousands of Liberal Democrats have today headed up to Blackpool for the Liberal Democrat Conference. A number of members from Wolverhampton, including David Jack, David Murray and Colin Ross (the General Election candidates) will be attending. The Conference is the first since the General Election so there will be many new MP's at the Conference as well.
Shepway residents are being urged to support the Marie Curie Cancer Care Trust this summer, by donating spare change from your last foreign holiday and all your old coins by popping into the Folkestone, Cheriton, Hythe or New Romney branches Lloyds TSB from 19 September.
A new initiative by Kent Police has been introduced to give rural communities the opportunity to help make their villages safer by monitoring traffic speeds on their roads. Speed Watch is designed to give parish councils around the county a chance to sign up to a scheme to record the speed of vehicles travelling through their area.
Commenting on today's report by 'Friends of the Earth', which states that Britain is missing the Kyoto target for reducing carbon emission, Norman Baker MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary said "It seems that the Government's attempts to tackle climate change are going backwards."
Shepway Liberal Democrats have slammed response times to email enquiries made to Shepway Council. An enquiry send by email to Shepway Council send on the 3rd of August and chased on 23rd August still has had no reply (beyond an automated receipt) by the 5th of September - over a MONTH after the initial enquiry.
Shepway's Euro MP, Sharon Bowles, has discovered that local councils across the South East, including Shepway, are struggling to bring about energy efficiency improvements in line with government targets.