The BBC's local news show North West Tonight has announced that Blackburn with Darwen's Council Tax increase is the lowest in the North West at 1.95%. This compares with an average increase of 3.3% across the region.
The Liberal Democrat MP David Heath is bringing to Parliament a debate that aims to end the scourge of Fuel Poverty once and for all.
Roy Gregg has been chosen by the Lib Dems to fight the Leek East Ward By-Election, caused by the resignation of the local Tory Chairman. Roy is an experienced campaigner, a former District & Leek Town Councillor, a parent governor at Westwood College, Treasurer of @21, the Leek Town Centre Youth Project, and a local Parish Clerk.
I come not to praise the maintenance of the roads and streetlights in Shepway, but to bury them.
For years the turning circle at the end of a small side street cul-de sac called Gibbons Grove would flood every time there was heavy rain.The main problem seems to be that the existing drain gully is located at the highest point in the circle and so is ineffective. Now, thanks to the campaigning and hard work of the Liberal Democrat Councillors these flooding problems may soon be a thing of the past. Liberal Democrat Councillors have been petitioning Wolverhampton Council's Transport and Regeneration Division for repairs to Gibbons Grove. Thanks to their persistence the work to put in additional gullies will be taking place in March.
Soaring energy bills have left an estimated 26,000 households in Newcastle in fuel poverty this winter, according to new figures highlighted by the Liberal Democrats.