The government is introducing changes to legislation under the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 which would allow councils and police to control late night/early morning activity, and to charge licensed premises for the costs of policing their customers.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has called on local residents to back a petition set up by Ambleside and Grasmere councillor Heidi Halliday, which is aiming to save vascular services for patients in the South Lakes.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has heralded a major government investment in Cumbrian broadband as another step forward in his campaign to make the South Lakes and Eden the broadband hub of the UK.
The 'Westbury Weaver' bus service (58A, 58B and 58C) is having its routes and times amended to serve the new White Horse Health Centre.
The new library is bigger than the combined areas of the two libraries it replaces, with more stock and longer opening hours. More than 40,000 books are available from 8:30am to at least 5:30pm every weekday. The state-of-the-art library has free WiFi, as well as public computers.
Keep the Number 7 bus Councillors in Hinckley and Bosworth are being urged to support a campaign to keep the only bus service that serves a host of local villages. The Number 7 bus services, which connects local villages including, Fenny Drayton, Sheepy Magna and Parva, Congerstone and Witherley to Ashby De La Zouch and Nuneaton faces being axed. Conservative run Leicestershire County Council have been consulting on scrapping the service. Councillors Bill Crooks (Liberal Democrat, Barlestone) and Michael Mullaney (Liberal Democrat, Hinckley Trinity) are putting a motion to the next Borough Council meeting calling for the Number 7 to be kept. Cllr Bill Crooks said "This service needs to be retained. I have been contacted by people who use this service to get to work. At a time when the Coalition government is trying to encourage people into work, it's wrong to get rid of the only bus service for people in these villages. I've also been contacted by elderly residents who depend on the bus for travel from the vi