Liberal Democrat Rural Affairs Spokesman Tim Farron MP, today challenged Secretary of State Hilary Benn to help rural residents pay for the costs of their septic tanks by transferring their responsibility from private residents to water companies.
Lib Dem Borough Leader and County Councillor David Kendall has welcomed the news that Essex County Council are going to devolve the resource allocation for universal youth work in Brentwood to Brentwood Borough Council as a pilot project for six months.
The Liberal Democrats have announced a major funding commitment that would boost education in Surrey. Nick Clegg has given a Liberal Democrat manifesto commitment for a Pupil Premium that would mean investing around £ 25m of extra cash in Surrey schools, raising the funding for disadvantaged pupils to private school levels.
Paul Holmes, MP for Chesterfield is supporting a nationwide 'Scamnesty' campaign by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and local authority Trading Standards Services, which aims to help end the scourge of mass marketed scams mailings in the UK. The campaign is coming to Chesterfield this February.
Gedling LibDems have chosen Julia Bateman as their Prospective Parliamentary Candidate.
Local Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates Nigel Quinton for Hitchin & Harpenden and Sandy Walkington for St Albans joined senior Liberal Democrat MPs at Westminster yesterday for a private meeting with FCC top management, Mary Grant and Neal Lawson.