The government should show flexibility to parents who take their children out of school for term-time holidays, according to South Lakeland MP Tim Farron. Statistics released this week show that in Cumbria the number of fines issued over the last four years has risen by over 200% and the number of prosecutions has rocketed.
South Lakeland MP Tim Farron is encouraging local entrepreneurs and business people to attend a workshop in Kendal run by online giant Google.
A review of the changes to the state pension arrangements, including the impact of the age changes, is set to be published in May 2017, said Cllr Robin Ashby. So now is an appropriate time to make representations to Government, even though its reaction to 193,000 petition signatories was to say in February it had no plans to alter state pension ages.
Oxton Councillor Stuart Kelly has demanded that Wirral's Labour Cabinet should hold a more wide-ranging consultation on the issue of recycling and household waste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoFVdes7qM8. Note the barracking and insults in the Commons from those gung-ho for "Blair's private war" - "unnecessary, diasterous and potentially illegal" according to one newspaper.
Liberal Democrat Councillors have commented on a proposal to write to the Secretary of State for Education about the White Paper on Educational Excellence.