Food Fair April 20
A new food fair celebrating local food is set to bring producers, retailers and customers together to showcase products made in the Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
25 Feb 2016
National News
Underspend on public health - and how Lib Dems would help road safety, Elswick Pool with it
Newspaper coverage of the forthcoming cuts to public health budgets in the North East rightly noted the disappointing news that the Government is to cut this budget by around 4% in coming years, and identified that this funding can do useful work in supporting healthier lifestyles as well as seeking to reduce harm from alcohol and tobacco. The article noted correctly that the Coalition government restored public health budgets to local authorities, rather than the NHS, in the last Parliament, after Mrs Thatcher's government removed this in the 1980s. However, it might usefully have noted that Labour had 13 years to do something about this in government and failed to do so. It might also have noted that Lib Dem health ministers in the last Government protected this budget. Alas, with the Conservatives now in government alone, there is no one to stop them doing so now. The public health budget situation is not quite as grim as Newcastle Labour councillors like Lord Beecham would have us believe. In fact, the
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25 Feb 2016
Farron's Campaign Succeeds As Government Applies For EU Flood Fund
A long campaign by South Lakes MP Tim Farron urging the government to apply for EU Solidarity Funding following the floods which hit in December has finally succeeded, as the government has announced that it will make an application to the fund.
25 Feb 2016
Masterplan published for massive housing scheme in Warminster
Persimmon Homes have submitted an outline application to build 1200 houses, plus 6 hectares of employment land,a primary school, a local centre and a link road on the western side of Warminster. If it gets the go-ahead the development will fill the space between Bath Road, Victoria Road and the bypass.
25 Feb 2016
Brentwood: the next 20 years
PPlease make sure you have your say on Brentwood's future by reading the Brentwood Local Development Plan and contributing to the consultation that runs until 23rd March 2016.
24 Feb 2016
EUROPOL European Migrant Smuggling Centre launched
Real sovereignty is a measure of the degree to which we can exercise power, the ability to influence, to get things done, says a leader in the Irish Times. It is a dynamic concept, not a zero-sum equation - paradoxically it is quite possible to reduce legal sovereignty, to submit ourselves to others in part, while actually enhancing our ability to affect events by being part of a larger whole: http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorial/brexit-campaign-the-illusion-of-sovereignty-1.2544378
24 Feb 2016