Cumbrian MP Tim Farron has called for an urgent meeting with FirstGroup, the new providers of the West Coast Main Line to talk to them about their plans for investment and ticket pricing.
On Monday morning several hundred people signed a petition calling for the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) to re-think plans to close Hinckley Ambulance Station. Local health campaigners, Janet Rowe and Denise Wood from the Pensioners Action Group and Cllr Michael Mullaney (Lib Dem, Hinckley Trinity) ran the petition from a stall in Hinckley's Britannia Shopping Centre. Michael Mullaney said "The response was great. In a few hours hundreds of people had signed up to the call for EMAS to re-think its plans for Hinckley's Ambulance station. "People were very supportive of Hinckley continuing to have an amubulance station. EMAS are going to have to put a very convincing case if they want to persuade people that closing Hinckley's Ambulance Station is the right thing to do."
Lib Dem crime spokesperson Cllr Pru Jupe has today said that the latest failure of the 101 number was 'disgraceful' and she has called for Cumbria Police to review their contract with Cable & Wireless as a result.
Commenting on today's inflation figures setting RPI at 3.2 per cent, which in turn could lead to 6.2 per cent (RPI+3%) rise in rail fares in January, Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party Committee on Transport, Julian Huppert said:
You can sign the petition calling on East Midlands Ambulance Service to rethink its plans to close Hinckley Ambulance station by visiting the petitions section of our website. For paper copies please call 07576 289910
It's the sheer location of this pothole that makes it so amazing - right on the pedestrian crossing outside Brentwood station just waiting for a passing commuter to turn their ankle as they run for the train in the morning or the bus in the evening.