Local Liberal Democrat, Cllr Julia Cherrett is delighted by the announcement by Ofcom that people who use phone numbers beginning with 08, 09 or 118 should in future have a much clearer idea of how much their calls will cost.
Spokes East Kent Cycle Campaign are asking all election candidates standing in east Kent their views on a number of cycling-related issues. Read the questions, and my responses, below:
Heather said "I have been appalled recently to discover that schools across Shropshire have been told that they will have to pay more than £10,000 for a broadband service they can get locally for around £2,000! I know that Chirbury has a bill in excess of £14,000 and Hope £11800 whereas other schools of similar size are paying much less. At a time of squeezed budgets this is pure extortion - just to cover the Council's costs for a badly negotiated contract. This has a huge impact on small rural schools that will now have to find thousands of pounds from their ever shrinking budgets just so they can keep up with the modern age.
Ministers are braced for fresh protests over their welfare shake up when controversial changes to the main disability benefit begin to take effect. George Osborne has agreed a "pilot" information exchange scheme with France, Germany, Italy and Spain to catch tax evaders. Photo: AFP By Patrick Hennessy
For over three years, the Liberal Democrats have been calling for all Brentwood councillors to be criminal record bureau checked for the safety of vulnerable residents and children that they deal with but have constantly been pushed back on this by the Tory administration.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed news that 813 families in Cumbria will get access to 15 hours of free childcare from September this year as the Government invests £2,247,482 to support Cumbria poorest toddlers.