Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
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13 Sep 2023
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Press release on the Autumn Statement.
Lib Dems condemn “chaotic and incompetent” budget
17 Nov 2022
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
'Home on the Farm' project seeks to provide solutions to the affordable housing crisis
Local MP, Tim Farron will table a parliamentary motion next week urging local authorities to take the lead in addressing the lack of affordable housing by adapting and converting disused or underused farm outbuildings into housing for local people.
31 Oct 2007
Farron invites Farming Minister to see damage done by FMD
Local MP Tim Farron has today written to Lord Rooker, the Minister for Sustainable Farming inviting him to come and see for himself the damage that this summer's foot and mouth outbreak has done to the farming industry in the area. Although the disease never went beyond the Surrey/Berkshire area, the national movement restrictions put in place had a knock on effect nationwide.
31 Oct 2007
Government Control orders unravelling
The Law Lords have today ordered the government to reconsider control orders imposed on eight terrorism suspects, although they did not declare the anti-terrorism measure to be completely unlawful. In rulings on six individuals, the Lords said control orders, which included 18-hour curfews, were too long. The Lords also ordered the courts to rethink two other cases because the proceedings had breached a right to a fair hearing. Under the control order system, the Home Office can impose daily curfews, restrictions on whom a subject can meet and where they are allowed to go. Subjects must also report daily to police and are banned from using mobile phones, email or the internet.
31 Oct 2007
New Cross-Channel Guide Boosts Winter Events
Listing more than sixty winter season events taking place in and around Folkestone and its across-Channel twin town Boulogne-sur-Mer, a new edition of 'Coast to Coast', published as a joint venture by Shepway District Council, Folkestown Centre Management and the Communaute d'Agglomeration Boulonnais, is now available from local tourist information points.
31 Oct 2007
WHERE HAVE OUR GPS GONE?
A senior Liberal Democrat, Ron Beadle, has discovered that Newcastle has lost a quarter of its GP practices in the past decade. The number of practices has fallen from 51 to 38 and the number of GPs has sunk from 156 to 148 since Labour came to power.
31 Oct 2007
Vote Now: Throwaway Shopping Bags
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats have launched an online opinion poll to gather views on the future of throwaway shopping bags. The online poll can be found at www.bedfordlibdems.org , on the right of the homepage.
31 Oct 2007