Wiltshire Council announced earlier this year its intention to withdraw special transport subsidies for children attending faith schools, almost all of whom belong to Roman Catholic families.
We'll probably never know exactly what precipitated the sudden decision by WC leader Jane Scott to dispense with the services of the WC Chief Executive, but the latest budget monitoring report exposes the fact that the administration has not got a grip on the council's finances, and would appear to justify the official story of the need to find yet more cuts.
Cash-strapped Wiltshire Council, where everybody matters, has announced drastic cuts to services for young people, with the aim of reducing the £3million budget by 20%.
University of Cambridge researchers involved in the study, which was reported in the journal Science, found that the removal of the HCN2 gene stopped chronic pain, but not acute pain. Acute pain is short-term pain lasting less than 12 weeks, while chronic pain is long-term pain lasting more than 12 weeks. The researchers say their findings could lead to new drugs being developed which block the protein produced by the HCN2 gene thus, hopefully, regulating neuropathic (nerve related) chronic pain.
On Friday local MP Tim Farron met with representatives from the Bowness business community, Cumbria Police and Cumbria County Council, to lend his support to the campaign to bring a new coach stop to north Bowness.
Local MP Tim Farron has thrown his support behind the Grey Pride campaign last Friday at Elleray Gardens in Windermere.