A special meeting of Surrey's Planning Committee on 30th June approved the building of an incinerator at Charlton Lane. This decision flies in the face of science, logic and common sense and has more to do with where Surrey Conservatives want to dump their waste and retaining grant funding of millions of pounds from DEFRA.
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron welcomed Ofcom's broadband map of the UK, released today, but denounced as 'appalling' Cumbria's particularly low broadband performance
Members of the Liberal Democrat group on Brentwood Borough Council were last night celebrating an historic victory after joining forces with other like minded councillors to save Brentwood's Town Hall and retain it as a seat of local government in Brentwood.
A task group set up by the WC Health committee has been looking at services for people with dementia in Wiltshire. Estimates of the number of people with the disease in the county range from 4,000 to over 6,000. If you're in the 40 - 65 age group you have one chance in 1400 of suffering from dementia, but that rises to one chance in six if you're over 85.
Lib Dem Children's minister proposes flexible free childcare entitlement, which will benefit working parents The Liberal Democrat cabinet member minister for children, Sarah Teather, has made an announcement that will enable millions of working parents to benefit from changes to a free childcare entitlement as part of a shake-up of early-years education.
New traffic management proposals have been set out for Ilford Road.
