BC Project 17 Dec
Philip Ling spoke at the BC Project Christmas event to emphasis how important good role models are for encouraging members of the Chinese community in Britain to enter politics.
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16 Dec 2009
National News
Send Gordon Brown a cancer unit reminder! - Tim's challenge to residents to prompt PM on local campaign
South Lakes MP Tim Farron is encouraging local people to give Prime Minister Gordon Brown a seasonal reminder of the campaign for a cancer treatment unit at the Westmorland General Hospital - and all it takes is a click on the Number 10 website!
16 Dec 2009
Farron hands over petition to university board as they debate proposal to close Ambleside campus
South Lakes MP Tim Farron last night formally handed-over his 3000-strong petition against the closure of Ambleside campus to the university's academic board. Among the signatures are some 1400 substantive comments which show the real strength of opposition to moving students to Carlisle, Penrith or Lancaster.
16 Dec 2009
Farron celebrates cancer unit success!
South Lakes MP Tim Farron is today celebrating success after hearing that Kendal's Westmorland General Hospital has now officially been chosen as the preferred location for a new radiotherapy treatment centre.
16 Dec 2009
MP pitches for IT apprenticeships scheme with local I.T company
Tim Farron secured a meeting with business and skills minister David Lammy to pitch for a deal that would create hundreds of new apprenticeships for new graduates.
16 Dec 2009
RPA in need of "urgent reform" says Farron after report slams agency debacle
The Rural Payments Agency must undergo "urgent reform" according to Liberal Democrat Shadow Defra Secretary Tim Farron MP, who has expressed his concern that farmers could continue to pay the penalty for the agency's bureaucratic bungling.
16 Dec 2009