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Tim with old people

MP celebrates success in bus campaign

South Lakes MP Tim Farron has praised Liberal Democrat campaigners, and local bus company Stagecoach for stepping in to provide bus services to Levens, Sedgwick and Natland after cuts by the Conservative-led county council.

18 Apr 2011
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TF Kendal

MP launches ‘Save our Library’ campaign

Local MP Tim Farron has today launched a save our libraries campaign in a bid to save 18 libraries from the axe. A petition has been launched asking local people throughout the South Lakes to join the campaign to save the service.

18 Apr 2011
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Lib Dem logo bird projected on blockwork

Catholic group awarded contract to counsel teenagers

Tory-controlled Richmond upon Thames Council has withdrawn funding from a local charity that has been providing counselling to teenagers for the last twenty years and instead awarded a contract for counselling of school-age children to a Westminster based Catholic organisation that requires its counsellors to "uphold and promote the Catholic ethos of the agency".

18 Apr 2011
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