We have had a huge number of objections from across Folkestone to your proposal to close the Folkestone Central Post office and replace it with a franchise facility in WHSmith on Sandgate Road. Please find enclosed the current signatories from both postal and online petitions - numbering in their hundreds - who object to your proposals.
Abbey and Woodside Middle schools have been assured by the County Council that "no further action" will now be taken over the issue of surplus places. In both cases the Council has agreed that the schools are expected to grow over the coming years.
Following the comments of the Bedford Borough Conservative Group Leader that "we are being swept along on a fashionable urge to save the environment," Bedford Borough Liberal Democrat Group Environment Spokesperson Cllr Paul Whitehead said:
The Liberal Democrats have today revealed plans to ensure that the rich pay a fairer amount in tax. The proposals - part of the tax paper which will be debated at conference - are designed to tackle the growing inequality in Britain, and the problem of people being priced out of the housing market by non-domiciles. The six-point plan will:
Steel safety rails and monkey bars worth £20,000 were stolen from children's play equipment at Western Park - in the latest in a spate of metal thefts from play areas across the city.
The estimated 1355 people with dementia and the thousands who care for them in Westmorland and Lonsdale have won the support of Tim Farron, the MP for the area and Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia campaigning to make their condition a national priority.
