Less dumping at WC
Wiltshire people have broken the record for recycling, going through the 50% level for the first time over the three-month period from July to September this year.
20 Nov 2012
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MP calls for Govt backed Cumbrian hydro strategy
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has used a Parliamentary Question to the Department of Energy and Climate Change to call for a new hydro energy strategy and to put Cumbria at the heart of it.
20 Nov 2012
'Send George Osborne a postcard from the Lakes, telling him to stop the Fuel Tax Rise' - Farron
Local MP Tim Farron has today written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer calling on him to axe the planned 3p fuel duty rise in his Autumn Statement in early December. But Tim's message wasn't written on House of Commons paper, it was written on a Lake District postcard!
20 Nov 2012
STUNNING SUCCESS IN HAVANT
Liberal Democrat Faith Ponsonby won a stunning by-election on Thursday, 15 November! Having lost the seat in Battins Ward to Labour in May she got it back by holding another seat in the ward when Lib Dem Katie Ray resigned..
19 Nov 2012
Drawing the Parallels Between Past and Present Threats to Vital Local Public Services
My latest regular column for the Times and Citizen, published in this week's paper, considered the similarities between the threat posed to our local police force a couple of years ago at the time of the attempted merger with Herts Police and that which faces Bedford Hospital currently in the form of the plans to downgrade two of five hospitals in our area. In case you haven't seen it, I've pasted a copy of the article below:
18 Nov 2012
S W Hertfordshire Liberal Democrat Tops Poll as "most influencial Briton on EU Policy"
South West Hertfordshire resident, Liberal Democrat Sharon Bowles MEP is already well known both as the powerful chair of Europe's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. Now, after being chosen as MEP of the Year last month and then named by a Financial News publication as one of the '30 most Inspirational Women in the City of London' , she has been named by a poll across Europe's senior politicians and civil servants as "the most influencial Briton on and in European policy making".
18 Nov 2012