Lydd Airport Planning Meeting re-re-scheduled for 24 September
The meeting to determine plans to expand London Ashford Airport (Lydd) has been put back 24 hours and will now be held on Thursday 24 September.
21 Jul 2009
National News
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS PROUD TO REPRESENT YOU AT LONDON PRIDE
The Liberal Democrats had one of their most successful Pride Parade's as thirty or so activists, Councillors, Prospective Parliamentary Candidates and European Parliament Candidates marched on a warm bright day through the crowded streets of London. The Lib Dems received massive ovations from the crowds as we were The First of the Political parties in the parade , spurred on by 80s Pop music blasting out from our UK flagged Mini, driven by Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Dave Raval, meant that the crowd joined in the festivities as our activists handed out flyers and sweets along the route.
21 Jul 2009
The end of a pernicious myth
An independent survey of social housing allocation explodes the myth that new immigrants jump the queue for social housing. The research, commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, found that less than 2 per cent of social housing tenants had arrived in the UK within the past five years, while the proportion of those born abroad living in social housing was almost identical to the proportion of social tenants born in the UK.
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21 Jul 2009
Support for Vestas workers
The Island Liberal Democrats join their colleagues Chris Huhne MP and Simon Hughes MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in questioning why the Government haven't been able to support Vestas blade manufacturing on the Island as they had with the Vestas wind turbine factory in Scotland.
21 Jul 2009
Lib Dems call for Action to keep our town centres alive
Liberal Democrat Councillors at the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead have called on the council to improve the car parking experience for visitors as part of a move to help keep the Borough's Town Centres alive through the recession.
20 Jul 2009
Liberal Democrat Councillors' bid to save firefighters
Liberal Democrat councillors are fighting plans to cut the number of firefighters at Hinckley Fire Station.
20 Jul 2009