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Sewage in our Rivers

The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.

14 Sep 2022
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Farron presses Primary Care Trust on specialist nurses

Local MP Tim Farron will attend a meeting with Primary Care Trust representatives about providing a specialist service for sufferers of Lymphoedema, a disease which affects thousands of people. At present there is a barely adequate service in South Cumbria for cancer sufferers who have the condition, and no NHS service at all for people with the condition who do not have cancer (who make up roughly three-quarters of sufferers).

2 Oct 2007
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Parliamentary Election Agent Dies

Scarborough and Whitby Liberal Democrats are mourning the sudden death of the Constituency's Parliamentary Election Agent Dr John Stonehouse. John, an agricultural entomologist working as a Research Lecturer at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College, University of London died on Wednesday in Senegal. He had been working in the field for the European Union in West Africa since July and died suddenly of cerebral malaria the night before returning to the UK.

2 Oct 2007
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New Research Shows Farmer Poverty and Industry Decline

More than half of Cornish farmers are living in poverty - the majority having been hit hard by delayed and incorrect Single Farm Payments - and the last decade has seen the industry decline by around a quarter, having also lost almost a tenth of its workforce since 2000, according to research released today.

2 Oct 2007
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