Council Tax Freeze & Council Budget
Council Tax bills in Newcastle for 2011/12 will be kept at 2010/11 levels. This means that the Lib Dems will have kept Council Tax below the rate of inflation for seven years.
28 Feb 2011
National News
MEPs Tackle WEEE
With Basingstoke and Deane not having the best recycling record we heard what our MEP's are doing to help, as with the following from Catherine Bearders' monthly newsletter.
CB
27 Feb 2011
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
Campaign for AV - Message from Catherine Bearder - MEP
It's now official - on 5 May this year British voters will decide whether to stick with an out-dated voting system, or to move...
CB
27 Feb 2011
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
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