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
It's sometimes easy to despair about the level of political debate in this country. We have the first UK wide referendum since 1975, on a subject as important as how we elect the people who represent us. How we elect those who set our taxes, take us to war, decide how we fund our services.
A message from the Lib Dem leader of Newcastle City Council, Cllr. David Faulkner
Lynne Featherstone, the Lib Dem MP for Hornsey & Wood Green and Equalities Minister, has launched a new initiative from the Government Equalities Office to solicit input and feedback from the trans community. On her website, Lynne says "Trans issues are often quite distinct and we recognise the need for some of those issues to be addressed separately. To make sure we really deliver for the trans community, we need to know how you think we should be progressing the agenda."
Local Lib Dems in the Royal Borough have pledged to continue their longstanding defence of weekly rubbish collections. Throughout the last 20 years while neighbouring Conservative councils moved to fortnightly collections or alternate week rubbish / recycling Lib Dems in the Royal Borough have defended weekly collections.
Lib Dem Cabinet Minister for Climate Change Chris Huhne paid a recent visit to Newcastle to see for himself why the city has been named Britain's most sustainable city for the second year in succession.