Cheriton Councillor Tim Prater has welcomed a call from Shepway Council to Cheriton's Tesco and Sainsbury's at Park Farm to clean up their car parks and the areas around them.
Cheriton Councillor Peter Carroll has called on Shepway Council to reinstate litter bins in Cheriton High Street that have been removed. Cllr Carroll made the call after the missing bins were raised with him by a local resident at a Police and Communities Together (PACT) meeting in Cheriton in January.
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Despite a £3 million enquiry lasting four years the Government has quietly dropped plans to replace council tax with a fairer system. Government sources reported in the Sunday Express have revealed that ministers will never release a response to the former council chief Sir Michael Lyons' report. The review was set up in 2003 amid mounting anger at double-digit rises in council tax bills.
Tim Farron MP, the Liberal Democrat Countryside Spokesman, today congratulated the local winner of the Countryside Alliance's third annual Best Rural Retailers Competition. This year the winner of the Cumbria area of the competition was Garth Steadman, proprietor of 'Steadman's Butchers.' Steadman's Butchers have won this award whilst being supplied almost exclusively through locally reared meat.
Local MP Tim Farron has today encouraged all schools in Westmorland and Lonsdale to sign up to the Fairtrade Schools scheme.