Blackburn receives Royal visit
His Royal Highness, The Duke of Kent, will take in the sites of Blackburn next Thursday, June 3, as part of an official visit to the town.
28 May 2010
National News
Temporary Road Closures: Alma Road, Folkestone (3 June) and Waterloo Road, Folkestone (4 June)
Alma Road, Folkestone will be closed on Thursday 3 June 2010 and Waterloo Road, Folkestone will be closed on Friday 4 June 2010 to enable Kent Highway Services to carry out high friction surfacing works for an estimated day each.
28 May 2010
Victory for Liberal Democrats as ID cards to be scrapped within 100 days
The Coalition Government today announced that ID cards are to be scrapped for British citizens within 100 days.
28 May 2010
Petitions to the County Council
The County Council's Conservative administration has recently decided to allow members of the public to submit petitions at meetings of the whole Council, not just at committee meetings. This is something that the Liberal Democrat group at County Hall have requested many times in order to open up the Council, but which until now has always been refused by the Conservative administration, even as recently as March this year.
28 May 2010
LIB DEM LANDSLIDE IN KENDAL ELECTION
Liberal Democrats are celebrating after they won all 24 seats in Today's deferred Kendal Town Council Elections - gaining three seats from the Labour, re-gaining one from the Green's and one from an independent.
28 May 2010
Welfare Reforms set out by Duncan Smith
Britain's welfare system is "trapping" poor people in poverty, the work and pensions secretary said as he unveiled plans for far-reaching reforms. Iain Duncan Smith wants to ensure benefit claimants are not made worse off by working and make state support conditional on willingness to work. He said the current benefits system was "broken" and unaffordable.
27 May 2010