Whitby Liberal Democrats have selected their candidate to fight the borough council by-election in Mayfield Ward. They have selected 67 year old ex-teacher Chris Cawood. Chris was born in the West Riding where he worked as a teacher for 27 years. He moved to Whitby and ran the Lealholm Village Shop for 14 years but is now retired.
The Audit Commission has said that councils need to review the value for money of their spending on magazines and newspapers. Liberal Democrats in North Yorkshire fully support the Commission's findings and will ask the Tory County Council bosses to do this.
PPC for Leicester South and Councillor for Stoneygate Parmjit Singh Gill has attacked Leicester's Labour run council over their lack of action over the Government's grant funding for the City.
Anyone using the A49 to get from the Ludlow area to Shrewsbury will know that you have to allow extra time because the chances of hold ups are very real. Distressingly it is often because the road is closed due to an accident. Many of us can name people we know or know of who have been killed or seriously injured on it. The Highways Agency have upgraded parts of it recently but this will not deal with accidents at places like Wooferton, Bromfield, the Grove junction, various places from The Grove to Church Stretton to name but a few.
Lib Dem councillors have called for the borough council to sell the Mayor's Rolls Royce and lease a Toyota Prius instead.
"A lasting and sustainable recovery can only be achieved if we correct these fundamental imbalances," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor.