County Councillor and Secretary of the Brentwood Bus & Rail Users Association, David Kendall, has called on the Cabinet member with responsibility for Transport at Essex County Council, Norman Hume, to call a halt to the uncertainty over the future of 81 bus service in Hutton which is being axed by First buses.
A Tory political assistant at the Royal Borough has resigned following a taped phone conversation in which he apparently plotted to oust the Royal Borough's deputy leader
The Surrey Police Authority is to hold a widespread public consultation on their plans to expand their force by about 200 new constables over the next 3 years, paid for by cutting about 50 senior officers and relocating Police Stations to council offices and supermarkets. About 100 of the new officers would join the neighbourhood police teams of "Bobbies on the Beat". This initiative has been supported by the Lib Dem members of the Surrey Police Authority.
An MP who will get things done for Devizes
An MP who will get things done for Devizes. We can give this constituency a REAL change, not another Tory MP. Instead a Local MP who has lived here for over 20 years and wants to represent the interests of the very rural area we live in.
The report on incompetent nurses continuing to treat patients issued by the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (another quango - CHRE) is disturbing. It seems the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) are accused of closing investigations prematurely without proper authority. Ordinary people might well wonder what is going on? Surely hospitals employing midwifes or nurses should be able to act promptly and quickly when problems arise in their hospitals with patients properly protected and investigations carried out swiftly with expertise.