Blackburn gets share of Reaching Out to Carers Innovation Fund
Youth Action in Blackburn has been awarded £11,323 from this new fund to help with a Young BME Carers Network.
17 Feb 2011
National News
Local Lib Dems welcome decision to have two Island MPs
The decision that the Isle of Wight will elect two MPs from the next General Election has been welcomed by Island Liberal Democrats, following a non-politically led campaign with supporters drawn from across the poiltical parties.
17 Feb 2011
Farron and community campaign saves Grizedale Forest!
Local MP Tim Farron is celebrating along with campaigners across the South Lakes after the government announced they will halt plans to privatise the remaining public forests.
17 Feb 2011
WELFARE REFORM BILL
The Welfare Reform Bill represents the most radical overhaul of the benefits system in a generation. Its focus is on helping people into work.
17 Feb 2011
Saving Our Libraries
The rigorous, ongoing process of stripping out waste and finding every possible efficiency saving across all parts of the Council and its activities is certainly a major task. However, I only have to consider for a moment what we have to lose if we don't succeed in continuing to find the vast savings required to remind me how important it is. Once vital services are lost, it is hard to see them coming back. To take just one example of a key service which I am simply not prepared for us to lose in Bedford Borough our libraries, for instance, are fantastic community facilities which must be protected.
17 Feb 2011
Fish for the Future - Lib Dem MEP leads action for change
North West Liberal Democrat European MP Chris Davies is setting up a group of European MPs to push for change to the regulations governing fishing in the European Union. The majority of our fishing grounds are not sustainable and unless action is taken fishing stocks could be severely decimated in the future.
17 Feb 2011