Many thanks to all of the people who turned up over Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st to help with our Action Weekend! We delivered huge chunks of the constituency, despite the rain, and had to print more leaflets! A good time was had by all at Bitton House later where we could let our hair down. Thank you!
On Monday 22nd March I attend an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Millenium Farm Trust. This was to appoint two new Trustees, Peter Hankard and Eve Mathers. The Trust is a Charity that like all charities need to ensure it has proper governance and controls in place and Trustees are an intrinsic part of that process. If the number of Trustees falls below three the trust would have had to cease operations so it was an important meeting.
I'm regularly asked how to get a website to update Twitter. Prater Raines are currently working on a new version of our Lib Dem Foci website service that will make this much simpler for our users of that service, but it's already possible using a very helpful application called www.friendfeed.com
A community 'Question Time' event, organised by the Research Councils UK and the Institute of Ideas Debating Matters Competition, is taking place in Folkestone at 7.00pm on Monday 29 March.
We face petrol prices rising yet again and the press have been relatively quiet on this huge problem. Rural areas such as ours are always penalised heavily as the cost of petrol and diesel rises. The Government has the opportunity in the Budget of removing the next rise in fuel duty which could well tip the price over the £1.20 per litre level.
Liberal Democrats in Wolverhampton South East has chosen Councillor Richard Whitehouse as their candidate for the General Election.