Fire Service Cuts - Deadline for Comments is this Friday
Time is running out for submitting comments on Surrey's "Public Service Plan" which proposes severe and controversial cuts to...
27 Feb 2011
National News
The unkindest cut of all - a callous disregard for voluntary groups! - Waverley
Residents will be disappointed to learn that Prime Minister Cameron's vision of support for the "Big Society" has not filtered down to his colleagues at Waverley. Although Waverley boasts of its own sound financial position Conservative Councillors, at the Borough Council's budget meeting on Tuesday 15th February, showed a callous disregard for the financial plight of key voluntary groups in Waverley. At the budget meeting a Liberal Democrat amendment to re-instate £43,000's worth of cuts in Waverley's grant to the Borough's voluntary sector was rejected by every Conservative Councillor present.
27 Feb 2011
Policy Day Concentrates on Local Issues
The Liberal Democrat Policy Day in Epsom High Street gave hundreds of residents the chance to list their priorities - and there...
27 Feb 2011
Baroness Sal Brinton visits Brentwood
Brentwood & Ongar Liberal Democrats welcomed one of our newest members of the House of Lords to The Eagle in Brentwood last...
27 Feb 2011
Academy FM: Folkestone’s own radio station gets ready to launch
105.9 Academy FM, Folkestone's new community radio station, has announced that it will go on air at 12 noon on Thursday 31 March 2011. Broadcasting from the Folkestone Academy, the station will serve the communities of Folkestone, offering a comprehensive variety of programmes 24 hours a day, and will be commercial free.
27 Feb 2011
Voting reform will not cause more cuts, Treasury insists
Minister's leaked letter counters Cameron's claim that AV would cost millions to implement
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27 Feb 2011