NEWS IN BRIEF FROM ACROSS PARKLANDS
:: Links Green play area
26 Feb 2010
:: Links Green play area
In yesterday's by-election in the Fenstanton ward of Huntingdonshire District Council, Liberal Democrat candidate, Colin Saunderson, gained the seat with a 4.2% swing from the Conservatives.
A packed meeting at the Westfield Community Centre in Hinckley this afternoon, heard a leading local Liberal Democrats issue a call to save Hinckley and Bosworth's local services.
In January I 'called in' the Council's decision to employ consultants to review our unique and historic market.
Local MP Tim Farron has called on the North West Development Agency not to accept the revised University of Cumbria's business plan which contains within it the moving of teaching students from Ambleside to Lancaster & Carlisle.
Winter isn't over yet and may still bite but we're already looking at any lessons learned from the worst Christmas and January weather for 30 years.