Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Wednesday 20th February) gave its strong support to LibDem Leader Nick Clegg MP in challenging Prime Minister Gordon Brown to act against "scandalous profiteering" by energy companies.
Urgent maintenance work to halt the deterioration of the historic Goldington Hall building on Goldington Green has moved a step closer following Liberal Democrat pressure. Bedford Borough Council's Planning Committee will decide on Monday whether to serve an Urgent Works Notice on the owners of the Grade II listed building, which is also known as the former Lincoln Arms public house.
Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat Countryside Spokesman, has today issued a parliamentary motion calling for the government to intervene to guarantee UK food security by tackling the steady decline in the number of farm units due to financial pressures. Mr Farron says that this decline is due to developments such as the shocking decline in the quota price of milk in the last twenty years, which has crashed from circa 32 pence/litre in 1988 to circa 1 pence/litre in 2008.
As the first anniversary of the tragedy approaches, local MP Tim Farron has repeated his call for a public inquiry into the cause of the train derailment at Grayrigg in February last year. Mr Farron has met with Transport Ministers in the past to urge them to carry out an inquiry, and has also written to the Prime Minister on the issue.
The former Conservative Member of Parliament for Blackpool North, Harold Elletson is visiting Tim Farron's constituency this Friday for a coffee morning with local members of the Liberal Democrats.
Local MP Tim Farron has written to the Competition Commission today asking that they look into the conduct of pub chains in relation to lessees. Mr Farron has tabled a Commons Motion criticising the pub chains that have in many cases been raising rent and other costs, forcing many pub landlords into hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of debt.