Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin was in the Port of Sunderland on 5th February 2015 to see its rail line being used for the first time in more than 20 years.
Work has now started on the new zebra crossing across Miswell Lane, Tring.
A major milestone in Chiltern Railways Oxford to London Marylebone rail project has been achieved. The building structure of Oxford Parkway is now complete after construction began at the site at the end of October.
I want prosperous businesses located and trading in the UK: high tech, manufacturing, R&D and design, but also services of all sorts - including health and personal services. I want the first group to use machines, IT, skills and innovation to be highly profitable. But I want them to pay their employees decent wages.
Liberal Democrat County Councillors have been shocked by local Tories' plans to hike council tax by 1.99% this year, the maximum they can without taking it to a county-wide referendum. In a highly controversial budget Hertfordshire Conservatives have proposed swingeing cuts to buses and library services. Leader of the Opposition and the Liberal Democrat Group, Stephen Giles-Medhurst commented: "I am appalled. The County Council clearly has to be careful and look after taxpayers' money properly, but right now putting up Council Tax by almost 2 percent and also hitting services to the elderly and vulnerable leave a bad taste in the mouth. We all know times are tough, but the Liberal Democrat Group have looked long and hard at the options available to us and will be proposing an alternative budget that ring-fences essential services and freezes Council Tax" Nick Hollinghurst, Liberal Democrat county councillor for Tring & the Vivllages said "I am dismayed that the Conservative administration is seeking to im
Experienced Lib Dem campaigner Nigel Quinton is to fight the S W Herts Parliamentary Seat against the struggling Financial Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke.