The potential loss of £50 million by Conservative Kent County Council of investments in Icelandic banks is under even closer scrutiny after news that KCC's financial advisers, Butlers, had advised Shepway Council that investments in Iceland were risky due to low liquidity in 2007.
Lib Dem campaigners Adrian Collett and Sue Gadsby are urging as many people as possible to come to the first session of the Pyestock inquiry on 25th November and an 'open evening' on 4th December. These will be held at Hart Leisure Centre, Hitches Lane, Fleet.
After months of planning and fund-raising, Enbrook Mail was launched today at A.B's Minimarket. Postal services will re-commence on Monday 27th October, with opening hours initially 10am-2pm Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
The impact of the credit crunch and ensuing recession will be devastating to British businesses. Now is the time for urgent action to keep the wheels of the economy turning: maintaining the flow of credit, sustaining business cashflow where possible, and halting the domino effect where problems with individual businesses bring on wider collapse. Our focus should be on bringing growth back.
Bedford Borough Council has been attacked over its shocking neglect in the face of rising energy costs. The condemnation of the council by Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats follows the revelation that a series of financial reserves created for the purpose of reducing the financial and environmental costs of its energy use have been left almost completely untouched over the past two years.
Plans for a new bus lane on the West Road have been excluded from the submission to the Government by transport operator Nexus.
