On Friday March 27th the Bell Inn at Codicote played host to the annual Hitchin & Harpenden Liberal Democrats constituency dinner. Lynne Featherstone, Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, was guest speaker at the event, which we were very grateful for as she had only recently broken her arm!
South East Lib Dem European Candidate Catherine Bearder has produced a video looking at the issue of climate change, and new coal power stations like that proposed at Kingsnorth in Kent.
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen has today pressed Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the Christies cash scandal, in which the hospital lost £6.5 million in the recent Icelandic banking crisis.
Councillors have rejected a planning application to build a residential care home on the site of the former Royal George pub on Brunton Park.
Conservative plans to introduce new car parking charges in Brentwood were roundly criticised by Liberal Democrat councillors David Kendall and Karen Chilvers at last night's Highways Panel meeting (31/3). The new proposals included:
Cornish MPs have welcomed the advent of the new Council for Cornwall this morning in a special House of Commons motion.