Conservative-led Essex County Council yesterday rejected a Lib Dem call for an inquiry into the spending of £5.1 million on the council's charge cards.
A local resident reports:
Members of the public are being invited this week to find out more about plans to add capacity on the M25 in Kent and Surrey, through the delivery of the motorway's first managed motorway scheme.
Bill Crooks and Michael Mullaney are fighting plans to put a huge composting site near local villages ...
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has offered 'whatever help is needed' to make sure Kendal's Torchlight Carnival survives. Organisers made the decision to axe this year's event after struggling to attract enough funding and volunteers in time for the September celebration.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has called upon local NHS commissioners to give the green light to the Westmorland General Hospital radiotherapy centre bid, after new figures showed that the North West has higher than average cancer mortality figures.