There will be relief from residents that the broad location for housing at Pickwood will not go forward into the Local Development Framework proposals for Leek. This is as a result of your strong protest, but it would be wrong to relax our guard. It was clearly foolish of planners to think of building 130 houses on land designated a site of Special Biological importance (SBI) and used so much for recreation by local people.
Roy Gregg welcomed the consultation on residents parking zones in the Southbank Street area. He urged residents to have their say on it, whether in favour or not, by returning their completed questionnaires to Stafford as soon as possible.
Restriction of our fundamental rights and freedoms has gone too far. ID cards, more CCTV cameras per head than any country in the world, a database of children's fingerprints, a government that wants to conceal its own record on the disastrous war in Iraq - it's the stuff of fiction.
The Liberal Democrat Parliamentary spokesman for Newcastle East, Greg Stone, has called on the Government to publish a list of contracts awarded for the 2012 London Olympics, following a commitment to do so from the Sport Minister, Gerry Sutcliffe in Parliament yesterday.
Chesterfield MP Paul Holmes met this morning with the 'Bus Minister' Paul Clark.
I have during the last couple of weeks been leading for the Liberal Democrats on the Welfare Reform Bill. During the committee stages of a bill members go through the proposed bill line by line putting forward amendments to improve the bill.