The single yellow lines situated around residential areas: Brookdale Road, Elsham Close, Cathkin Close, Woodhall Close and Chevin Avenue have been a recent target of traffic wardens these past months.
The Lake District is potentially losing out on millions of pounds of extra revenue because of the UK's decision not to enter the Schengen agreement according to South Lakes MP, Tim Farron, who today called on the foreign office to give tourism in the UK a much needed boost.
A short service of remembrance around the memorial in Capel-le-Ferne gave everyone an opportunity to recall lost friends and to thank the pilots of 70 years ago for their courage and sacrifice. Hundreds of names are written on the wall there to remind us all, of the task undertaken by these brave men.
As the small group gathered and rightly proud men displayed their medals, the mood softened and our united thoughts centred on the task in hand. Flag bearers, worship leaders, ex-servicemen and women and supporters heard the Rev. Mark Hayton gather our thoughts in prayer and we turned our minds to the importance of the occasion.
Less than a third of the way through the council's financial year, it is becoming clear that the Conservative's car parking polices are not working and that revenues to the council and visitors to our towns and shops are both down on what might be expected.
I welcome the successful prosecution in Harrow Crown Court of four individuals for the trafficking of six British women. There are reports of around 218,000 people going missing in Britain every year and in my view for too long the police have focused on human trafficking into Britain, ignoring trafficking out of Britain. I have met and challenged the police office leading the investigation into human trafficking in the UK on exactly this point. His initial response was that once removed from the country the crime took place in another country and British police could not act. I pointed out that kidnapping was an offence in this country as was seeking to take women out of the country for sexual exploitation. While he acknowledged this was a known problem he was at a loss what the police could do in this country once someone had been taken out of the country.
