Springvale Ward Liberal Democrats are delivering their latest Focus to 5100 homes in the Ward. The main stories are about a community group taking over Hilton Hall, improvements to bus services and West Midlands member of the European Parliament investigates the 'Big Brother' DNA base.
Local Lib Dem candidate Stephen Robinson visited the Greenpeace ship 'Rainbow Warrior', when stationed at Southend. It was part of the campaign to persuade Gordon Brown to 'give coal the boot' by rejecting proposals for a new coal-fired station at Kingsnorth in Kent.
http://salopblog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c731d53ef010535ce227c970b-piCharles West speaking at the Red Cross Hall Ludlow.MEETING...
Catherine Bearder has welcomed a key European Parliament legislative report which is set to benefit those who use time shares and holiday clubs. Two thirds of time share owners in Europe are from the UK, and the new legislation will strengthen UK consumers' rights.
LIBERAL Democrat PPC Tania Exley-Moore has backed plans to help small businesses survive the looming recession.
Councillor Richard Whitehouse reports that the review of bus services 223 & 224 has been done. It was found that there was a real problem with time keeping mainly because of traffic congestion in Dudley. As a result the timetables have been altered in order to give a better running time and so hopefully improve time keeping. The most important change is that the 224 is to be rerouted from the end of November along Farrington Road, Ettingshall Park. This follows a concerted campaign by the more elderly and infirm residents of Farrington Road to get the bus returned to them and at the same time numerous objections from the residents of Grosvenor Road for it going along their road. Richard Whitehouse said, "This is good news for nearly everyone and a credit to the hard work a number of residents have put into this. However, the subsidy only lasts from Centro for another six months and so IF YOU DON'T USE IT YOU WILL LOSE IT."