The sun is shining, and across the county, Wiltshire residents are relaxing, perhaps hoping to enjoy a swim or a trip to the local gym. But thanks to the Conservative administration at the Council, it's a postcode lottery at Wiltshire's leisure centres.
Typical Council Tax Payers in the Royal Borough could be £374 better off under Liberal Democrat Plans to freeze Council Tax than under Conservative Plans to increase Council Tax in line with inflation.
Councillor Abdul Rehman has resigned from the Liberal Democrat Groups on Blackburn with Darwen Council.
Many local residents will have been shocked by the story in last week's Times an d Citizen, which revealed that the Conservatives in charge of Central Bedfordshire Council have shortlisted US waste giant Covanta's bid for a mammoth 600,000-tonne capacity incinerator near Stewartby amongst their potential long-term waste partners. There are 6 firms on their shortlist, which will be reduced further in the next few weeks. The Tories' move is the latest in a long campaign by the party in support of an incinerator at Rookery Pit near Stewartby. First, the former Conservative County Council pursued plans for its own incinerator there, and then Conservatives in Buckinghamshire previously selected Covanta's project as the preferred option for Bucks waste. Now Central Beds Conservatives could be about to give the biggest boost they possibly could to the appalling prospect of the incinerator being built. I am calling on the Conservatives to listen to the broad-based campaign of local residents, which even the local Con
Local Lib Dem Campaigner Gary Fuller has reported potholes and graffiti in Sandgate, including potholes in Chalcroft Road and Coolinge Lane near Sandgate Primary School.
Local residents have questioned what Wiltshire Council's Policy & Communications department are doing with their £2.2million of taxpayer's money, when the latest editions of the Thompson Local Phone Directories still have the obsolete district council contact details