Serious concerns over safety of residents have led to the Liberal Democrats voting against the plan for this year's "Lighting Up Brentwood" event as the road will not be closed during the event. Tory plans to move the event to Thursday evening from a Saturday have also contributed to this decision.
September 23rd is Bi Visibility Day, also known as International Celebrate Bisexuality Day. Since 1999, bisexual people and groups around the world have held events to highlight bisexuality and combat biphobia.
As I wrote on here last week, the Council has now published a set of proposals for achieving the £10 million-plus of savings required to make next year's budget balance. With the consultation on these proposals set to be launched next week, I really do hope that people take the opportunity to have their say on what has been put forward. I wrote about the consultation, and the plans, in last week's Times and Citizen newspaper, and feel it's worth reproducing that here for anyone who missed it:
Thanks to the continuing hard work of St Peters' Liberal Democrats CCTV security cameras are to be reinstated in Glentworth Gardens. Local residents, shopkeepers and Liberal Democrat campaigners have demanded the return of the Domehawk camera as a way of helping to prevent drug dealing taking place outside the Glentworth Gardens shops.
The hopes of over a thousand residents in the coastal part of Lydd, to have their own local council are set to be smashed by the block vote of Tory members on Shepway District Council, most of whom do not have the best interests of Lydd and the Marsh at heart.
It was a great pleasure to join with hundreds of other people at The Grand to hear the first four Triennial artists named. There was an air of excitement and anticipation in waiting to hear some of the plans, especially being able to remember the last Triennial and having enjoyed the exhibitions.
