Don Foster: Government boost for cycle fans
In response to a Liberal Democrat campaign, the Government has said it will boost cycling as a sport by removing barriers to...
In response to a Liberal Democrat campaign, the Government has said it will boost cycling as a sport by removing barriers to...
The streetlights not working (which is all of them!) on The Undercliffe, Sandgate, have been reported to Kent Highways by Folkestone West County Councillor Tim Prater. The lights went out on 4th February and reported soon after. Kent Highways sent an engineer to the road on Tuesday 8th February and diagnosed a cable fault.
There are 3964 applicants on Guildford's Housing Registers, in need of affordable rented or low-cost shared-ownership homes, an increase of 361 in three years. Yet Guildford Borough Council has provided only 232 extra affordable homes since 2008, and expects to provide just 64 in 2011/12. Liberal Democrat councillors speaking at last Thursday's Borough Council meeting condemned the poor record of the Conservative-run Council over the last four years, saying they had let down those in housing need.
Photographs that link the past and the present are the subject of a family history competition being organised by Shepway District Council to coincide with the 2011 census.
CCTV Success
Liberal Democrat Borough Councillors have condemned the Conservatives' rejection oftheir budget proposals as a missed opportunity to improve services whilst still freezingcouncil tax. At the budget-setting meeting of Guildford Borough Council last Thursday,Liberal Democrats proposed: