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Tackling Speeding in Our Communities: String of Limits Cut in Response to Local Concerns

As I've written here previously, as I talk to residents across the Borough it is striking how often the issue of speeding traffic on our residential roads comes up as a primary concern of people in all of our communities. Key to bringing speeds down to safer levels is of course enforcement, and while this is a police responsibility we are working with the police and the Chief Constable has reassured me that he shares effective enforcement as a priority. As far as the Council is concerned, we oversee speed limits on local roads across the Borough, in consultation with the police, and in response to the number of concerns raised with me I launched a review of speed limits across the Borough last year.

18 Jan 2012
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Will 2012 the Year of the Dragon be a peaceful and prosperous year?

The Year of Dragon will come on 23 Jan this year. In Chinese thinking the Year of Dragon will be a good year. But for the global economy and global politics: "Will 2012 the year of Dragon be a peaceful and prosperous year? " No economist or political scientist can predict the future 100% totally correct. I also can't predict 100% correctly, but here are my honest predictions. I wish 2012 the year of Dragon will be a peaceful and prosperous year for everyone.

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18 Jan 2012
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Tim and the Lib Dems at WGH

Health regulator launches formal investigation into Morecambe Bay Hospitals Trust

South Lakes MP Tim Farron has called on the government to urgently step in as news breaks that health regulators the Care Quality Commission (CQC) are launching only their fourth ever formal investigation in their history. The news has echoes of the situation at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust who were investigated in a similar way by the CQC's predecessors, the Healthcare Commission. Tim has spent the afternoon meeting with Department of Health ministers to talk about a way forward.

18 Jan 2012
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