Plans by Surrey's Conservative administration to close down the Mobile Library Service and further plans to reduce the County's static libraries to "a core branch network" have been slated by Liberal Democrat councillors as "hitting the heart of local communities."
The Liberal Democrats' LGBT wing will be holding a social evening in London on Saturday 29th January. Members, supporters and friends can join us from 8:30pm at the Kings Arms Pub, 23 Poland Street, Soho W1F 8QL. There will be a fundraising raffle at the social, with the top prize being a bottle of House of Lords champagne.
Failure by Conservatives in the Royal Borough to properly defend Windsor from an unwanted office development off Alma Road will...
On Sunday a Council consultation on a climate change planning policy came to a close. It was significant, in that the options...
In a message to staff outlining the cuts they can expect as the cash-strapped council faces up to the difficulties caused by government cut-backs and the costs of going to a single mega-council, boss Andrew Kerr has conceded that the council is going to have to cut bureaucracy and waste. "We are looking at finding significant savings through improving how we purchase goods and services … and how we can transform our services to cut out bureaucracy and waste and focus on what our customers need - systems thinking," he said.
Cumbrian MP, Tim Farron, has warned that the new Uplands Entry Level Stewardship (ELS) is too hard for farmers to claim.