Budget a missed opportunity Bedford and Kempston
Henry Vann, Bedford and Kempston Parliamentary Candidate for the Liberal Democrats has criticised the budget for failing to take the poorest people out of income tax. He said:
29 Mar 2010
National News
Out on the beat with PCSO
Sandgate Valley Parish Councillor, Season Prater, went out on the beat with PCSO Mark Wilson last Friday night. Season and another resident joined Mark as he walked around Sandgate watching out for any anti social behaviour or crime. This "enviornmental audit" was the first in a series Mark hopes to run over the coming months.
29 Mar 2010
Councillors to Help Recycling Efforts in Flats
When the borough council had drawn a blank in getting 191 blocks of flats in the borough to expand their recycling, councillors offered to help.
29 Mar 2010
Local Lib Dem MEPs call for an end to Spanish "land grab"
UK citizens who own property in Spain are in danger of having their homes bulldozed due to an unfair interpretation of Spanish law.
29 Mar 2010
How do we get fairer tax?
There has been a lot of pressure on George Osbourne to come clean on the policies he intends to implement in the increasingly unlikely event that we have stand alone Tory Government. He seems to want the public to trust him and elect a Tory government, but doesn't seem to trust us to elect the Tories if he tells us what he plans. Perhaps he has good reason to have such fears since it is possible that he might have some plans and he may know those plans may alarm ordinary voters. Even if he does make a promise can we trust such promises? After all Margaret Thatcher made a clear promise not to double VAT in 1979 and she didn't. She increased it from 8% to 15%, which was not quite double. That decision triggered rampant inflation.
29 Mar 2010
British Cycling
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29 Mar 2010