Reading Liberal Democrats are preparing for their biggest ever year at Reading Pride, adding their weight to a full removal of the blood ban on men who sleep with men and women who sleep with them, ahead of a Liberal Youth motion at Federal Conference. They will also be launching local activist Jamie Wake's project 'OK2BGay' in Reading.
Cllr Richard Whitehouse has launched two petitions for drink bans on two of our open spaces. In July it was announced that Cllr Richard Whitehouse was to have meetings with the police about drink bans on three areas of the ward: Springvale Park, Kossuth Road/Hurst Hill open space and the fields behind Hilton Hall, Hilton Road. In order to get an order he needed the support of the police because an order that is unenforceable lessens the value of others.
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Local MP Tim Farron has today publicly cautioned Cumbria County Council not to waste the £17 million recently secured for rural broadband on a costly 'white elephant'. Tim has called for the council to stop and think and make sure the county becomes a pioneer for superfast broadband.
The Planning Committee has deferred a decision on an application to build an 82 bed hotel on the site of the Comrades Club in The Parade. The issue is likely to come back for decision in December and the developer has accepted the delay.
Chippenham constituency MP Duncan Hames has set out his views on the Wiltshire Core Strategy in a letter to the WC planning chief Mark Boden. Here's what he said: