HGV ban comes into force on Foresters Drive
Liberal Democrats have successfully secured a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) ban covering the route along Sandy Lane South, Foresters Drive and Plough Lane, between Stafford Road and the A2022.
21 May 2026
National News
Mid Sussex Times
Political opinion by Alison Bennett MP: Building homes without losing our communities
In her weekly column, MP for Mid Sussex, Alison Bennett, discusses the impact of planning changes on local communities and the importance of building homes alongside vital infrastructure
21 May 2026
Oldham
Liberal Democrats put grooming gangs inquiry ahead of Council stalemate
Liberal Democrat group leader Sam Al-Hamdani has written to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and Minister for Safeguarding, Natalie Fleet, to ensure that there will be no delay to the grooming gangs inquiry caused by the current stalemate at Oldham Council.
20 May 2026
Victoria Collins MP backs closer ties with the EU
Victoria Collins, has backed calls for closer ties with Europe to help ease cost-of-living pressures on local families and businesses still facing the impact of Brexit and rising global instability.
20 May 2026
Council Group
Former Deputy Leader of Stockport Labour, Cllr Joe Barratt, has joined the Liberal Democrats
A Stockport Labour councillor who quit the party last year over fears it was "sleepwalking into a Reform government" has formally joined the Liberal Democrats, as the party cements its historic majority control of Stockport Council.
20 May 2026
Liz Jarvis MP welcomes constituent’s petition passing 100,000 signatures
Liz Jarvis, the Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh, has welcomed the news that Paris Shears’s petition has reached 100,000 signatures.
20 May 2026