Liberal Democrat parliamentary spokesman, Cllr Stephen Psallidas, was at the official opening on Jan. 22nd of the spectacular new footbridge which links the new Northumbria University campus at Manors with the city centre campus.
Shepway Council confirmed last night that an annual £35 fee would be charged for the green garden waste recycling bins, on top of the Council tax levied by Shepway. Taken with the expected tax increase which Shepway will set in February, a household choosing to keep their brown-top bin in recycling will see their Shepway Council tax move from £203 this year to a combined Council & Garden Tax of £247 next year - a record 21.7% increase.
Local Liberal Democrats have called on the Greene King Brewery to meet its responsibilities as the owner of the Grade 2 listed Lincoln Arms Pub building and halt its slide into disrepair, after a fire damaged the historic building at Goldington Green in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Councillors from the Overview and Scrutiny Committee are to visit local hospitals to get a better understanding of what happens when vulnerable people are sent home.
Paul Rowen MP spoke out on behalf of the hundreds of Rochdale people who have already or will in the future develop a lung condition from their work with asbestos.
Tory-led Surrey County Council voted today to keep the freeze on youth service recruitment, despite the obvious damage it is causing to youth services throughout Surrey. Liberal Democrat Councillor Diana Smith (Knaphill) put forward a motion calling for an immediate end to the recruitment freeze, put in place in December 2007. But the ruling Tory group voted to keep the status quo.
