Conservative Councillors on the County's education committee (Education, Enterprise and Skills Cabinet Panel) have refused to support the action of the Chairman of the County's headteachers' committee (Schools Forum).
The Liberal Democrats launched the "Lib Dem Fightback" to reconnect with Surrey residents and started planning for the County Council elections at a well-attended Conference in Guildford this weekend. The Conference follows on from a series of Council by-election wins in Surrey since the general election where the Party held council seats in Mole Valley, Elmbridge and Woking and gained a seat from UKIP in Mole Valley.
Heathrow was a poor locational choice for a new major airport even when it opened in 1944 and replaced Croydon and Hendo...
On Friday, the Planning Committee of Newcastle City Council will decide upon two planning applications which are hugely important for the future of public open space in Parklands Ward
Only the top 10% of farmers would be able to survive due to severe drops in EU subsidies A British exit from the European Union would have a devastating effect on the nation's farmers, leaving only the most efficient 10% able to survive without the multi-billion pound subsidies currently handed out by Brussels, says a new report.
There is understandable impatience to the late introduction of broadband to the rural parts of the UK. Two months ago local Liberal Democrat county councillor, Nick Hollinghurst, was at a meeting when Microsoft's UK Director of Media & Communication referred to the "Great British Broadband Problem". However a massive extension programme costing nearly £2 billion and with funding shared between the government, the EU, industry and local authorities continues to make progress in providing connections free of charge to the householder.