South Lakes MP Tim Farron has written to schools and sports clubs in the South Lakes asking them to sign up online and join the bone marrow register.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has nominated local artist Michael Eden from Milnthorpe, and his Wedgwoodn't Tureen, as our area's entry into the 'Made by Britain' campaign which aims to boost UK arts and manufacturing.
Local man George Fussey who has lived in Eton for over 25 years will be standing for election to the Royal Borough on 11th August.
The planning policy of the coalition government is to be based largely on the Conservatives' policy paper 'Open Source Planning' which was published prior to the general election.
Details of new bus services in both urban and rural parts of the Borough have been announced, and they confirm that we are bucking the trend and protecting and even improving services here at a time when they are being slashed elsewhere. Of course, as with any changes to bus routes, it is not uniformly good news, but overall across both urban and rural parts of the Borough access to decent bus services is being maintained and even improved. The headlines from the changes to both the Stagecoach commercial routes and the new Bedford Borough Council-tendered rural services run by Grant Palmer include the long hoped-for extension of services in Bedford and Kempston until up to 11pm, free rural weekend travel for under 16's and new paperless smartcard ticketing in the urban area. We are also continuing the vastly improved new Sunday services we introduced in Bedford recently, with routes which mirror those run commercially by Stagecoach over the rest of the week.
Essex Police has launched details of its new Policing Blueprint model. The proposed changes will be implemented by March 2012. According to the police, this will build a capability and a capacity that will serve well the people in Essex and continue to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in the years ahead.