Lib Dems call for Allotment Fairness
Royal Borough plans to allow people to jump the allotment queue in the Royal Borough by placing some allotments out to auction on e-bay to the highest bidder are not fair say local Lib Dems.
3 Aug 2011
National News
The care home scandal in Wiltshire
Cllr Chris Caswill (Chippenham Monkton ward) has called for an overhaul of the standards of residential care for Wiltshire residents. At the July 12th Wiltshire Council meeting, Chris was given an assurance by the Cabinet member for adult social care, John Thomson, that all was well at Rose Villa, the Castlebeck residential home in Bristol. Several Wiltshire residents live there. Castlebeck are the company which ran the notorious Winterbourne View home which was the subject of a Panorama documentary. Within hours of Cllr Thomson's assurance it was revealed by the BBC that staff at Rose Villa had been suspended and within a couple of weeks the Care Quality Commission identified Rose Villa as one of the four Castlebeck residential homes about which they had 'serious concerns'. Rose Villa was judged inadequate on five 'essential standards'. Cllr Caswill has now written to Cllr Thomson to ask how he, and NHS Wiltshire, could give assurances about the care being given to Wiltshire residents in the morning, which w
WCLD
2 Aug 2011
Sites for Future Housing
Epsom & Ewell Borough Council has embarked on a consultation, which will last 12 weeks from 1st August, giving residents the opportunity to comment on sites for future housing.
2 Aug 2011
Wiltshire's Youth Services face termination
£600,000 cut Youth Centres to be lost Risk of surge in anti-social behaviour Planned cuts to the Youth Service could decimate young lives, Wiltshire's Liberal Democrats have warned.
2 Aug 2011
Wiltshire's Conservatives are ignoring the care home abuse scandal
Cllr Chris Caswill (Chippenham Monkton ward) has called for an overhaul of the standards of residential care for Wiltshire residents.
2 Aug 2011
![Martello Tower 6 [Sandgate Escarpment]](/fileadmin/_processed_/3/f/csm_martello-tower-6-sandgate-escarpment_0705ed2186.png "Copyright Steve Popple and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Licence.")
Sandgate Says No to Escarpment New Houses Plan
Sandgate Councillors Gary Fuller and Tim Prater have launched a petition against a proposed development of Sandgate Escarpment. The "Sandgate Says No" petition is part of a cross-community campaign against the building of housing on the hills above Sandgate below Shorncliffe Camp. The proposed development Y11/0137/SH is for:
2 Aug 2011