Terrye Teverson, Lib Dem Prospective MP, has demanded that rail bosses run two carriages on the new half hour train service between Truro and Falmouth due to start in mid May.
I find myself in entire agreement with Craig Dearden Phillips when he wrote in his letter (BFP 17/4/09) about the problems over the policy to close the Middle School. The full extent of the resulting problems are still not being fully exposed to the public. I found it incredulous that County Councillors were forced to vote on this issue purely on the educational merit and without regard to the full impact, which will see young children in Suffolk having twenty miles bus journeys to get to school funded by the County Council but not costed in advance to enable a proper assessment of the impact. It will not be good for any child to have to make such journeys and be so far from home.
Henry Vann, Liberal Democrat parliamentary campaigner for Bedford and Kempston has slammed as "totally inadequate" a government scheme supposed to help families facing the loss of their homes.
In light of the swine flu outbreak and raising of the World Health Organisation's Pandemic Strategy to phase five, Cllr Graham Knight, has sought reassurance that emergency measures are in place locally to cope if necessary.
The Government suffered a symbolic defeat when MPs voted by 267 to 246 on a Liberal Democrat motion to give all Gurkha soldiers equal right of residence in Britain.
The Government suffered a symbolic defeat when MPs voted by 267 to 246 in support of the Liberal Democrats' motion to give all Gurkha soldiers equal right of residence in Britain.
