To most of us it's just "the NHS" - but the reality is that it's a very complex organisation. Did you know that there is a...
To most of us it's just "the NHS" - but the reality is that it's a very complex organisation. Did you know that there is a...
Councillor Andy Kelly and the local Lib Dems have announced ambitious plans to plant 10,000 trees in the Rochdale Borough in 2016. Working in partnership with the Woodland Trust, they are calling for areas of public or private land to be nominated to be planted with trees for future generations.
Britain got one step closer to a compromise with its European Union partners over curbing welfare payments to EU migrants when the senior EU official in charge of the negotiation said fundamental rights in Europe were "not unconditional", EurActiv reports: http://www.euractiv.com/sections/uk-europe/britain-nears-compromise-eu-migrant-welfare-curbs-320989 However, according to EUobserver, a deal on EU reforms with Britain in February is possible but one should "not put money on it," the European Commission's chief negotiator said on Thursday (14 January): https://euobserver.com/institutional/131838 UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said in 2015 that he wouldn't call English EU senior official Jonathan Faull British, in a stinging rebuke to the veteran civil servant chosen by the European Commission to head up its taskforce on the "Brexit" referendum. Farage's comment on Faull, who was born in Kent, is reported in EurActiv: http://www.euractiv.com/sections/uk-europe/farage-commissions-brexit-boss-i-wo
The new *Councillor* Gemma Massey takes 63 per cent of the vote in the Launceston Central by-election:
Reacting to the news that Hinckley and Bosworth's Conservative administration intends to increase the Council Tax by 4.5%, Lib Dem Opposition Leader Cllr Stuart Bray (Lib Dem, Hinckley Castle) said: "We will be opposing this inflation-busting rise. During the last Lib Dem administration we froze Council Tax for 5 consecutive years, protected front-line services and put money away for a rainy day. After less than a year the Tories have already made a mess of it. "The last Conservative administration hiked up Council Tax and other charges and it's happening all over again. The last Lib Dem Council set in place new ways for the Council to make money on land it proposed to sell off, if the Conservatives had continued that at the pace we had intended then it was very likely that no increase would have been necessary again this year." This is on top of the new that Tory-controlled Leicestershire County Council is also increasing their share of the Council Tax by 4% too. Lib Dem Finance Spokesman C