FOLLOW THAT GRITTER!
A new service which allows local residents to track the exact location of gritting lorries in Bedford Borough is now available on the Council website.
21 Dec 2011
National News
Pilgrims Hatch Dispersal Order finally agreed
Common sense finally prevailed at Brentwood Borough Council last week when the Conservative administration listened to Pilgrims Hatch's Lib Dem councillors and agreed to the installation of a dispersal order to stop the anti-social behaviour that has blighted the area in recent months.
21 Dec 2011
Local newsagents and post offices hit by unfair trade - MP pledges support
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has signed a commons motion urging the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to review the anti-competitive and damaging practices in the news and magazine supply chain that is crippling small shops and newsage nts in our community.
21 Dec 2011
Lib Dems call for Black Country Route landscaping trees to be preserved
The Black Country Route links Wolverhampton, Bilston, Willenhall and Dudley to the M6. When it was built in the late 1980s and 1990s trees were planted as part of the Planning Conditions.
21 Dec 2011
Farron calls on Primary Health Care Trust to fulfill obligations
South lakes MP TIM FARRON is calling for NHS Cumbria to ensure Health Checks are a priority follow ing startling revelations in the HEART UK Report, 'Cholesterol and a Healthier Nation', launched last week in Westminster.
21 Dec 2011
Projects for the New Community Infrastructure Levy
The way developer's contributions to the council coffers are spent is changing. Previously the subject of a legal agreement known as a Section 106, in the future there will be a Community Infrastructure Levy, or CIL.
21 Dec 2011