A residential unit, providing respite for carers of learning and physically disabled students at the borough's Manor Green special school has been closed less than a year after opening. The Unit, funding for which was secured under the last Lib Dem Administration of the council, was part of the completely new school finished just over a year ago.
Social services in Swindon overspent by £1.9m last year, it has been revealed.
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Conservative run Surrey County Council has rejected proposals by the Liberal Democrats that would improve consultation and involvement of residents in the Council's decisions.
Months ago, Lib Dem MP Vince Cable was in hot water over his comments that he had 'declared war on Murdoch'. Now, with the phone hacking scandal revealing the full breadth of News International's criminal activity, and the involvement of the Conservative and Labour partys over the last decade, Vince Cable said: 'It is like the end of a dictatorship when everyone discovers they were against the dictator'.
South Lakeland MP Tim Farron rolled up his sleeves and spent yesterday afternoon with Grange Lengthsman John Gilmore cleaning local footpaths and inspecting roads and walls in the town.