First of all can I wish you all a Happy New Year! Let us hope that 2013 does not bring any further major problems for the Snailbeach and Stiperstones area- such as pylons, closing toilets or threats to schools!
The Coalition Government's state pension reform will deliver a single, simple and decent pension.
Chesterfield's Labour Town Hall bosses decided at a recent emergency Council meeting to hit some of Chesterfield's poorest residents with increased charges to their Council Tax.
Kent Trading Standards have received a report of a resident in Ashford being cold called on the 8 January. The caller claimed to be a debt collection agent. When the consumer asked to see his ID card he waved it at her and then put it away. He said he needed cash or a bank card.
An update on plans by the Trowbridge Town Hall Trust for the transfer of the Town Hall to them goes to Wiltshire Council's Capital Assets Committee next week. WC intends to keep its options open by working with the Trust to help them make use of the Hall, whilst at the same time being ready to sell the building on the open market if the Trust isn't successful.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has backed the NFU's call for retailers to demonstrate genuine commitment to their British suppliers and customers after a 22% fall in the farmgate lamb price, despite the price on the supermarket shelves staying static.