South Lakes MP Tim Farron challenged a health minister to save Kendal's mental health ward in a debate in parliament yesterday. The Conservative minister refused to express his support for the ward remaining open, saying "everything cannot be available in every local community".
Across the North West and worldwide vigils are being held in memory of the people killed in a homophobic attack on an LGBT nightclub in Florida.
The snag is that the fears are real. An article on research by Demos which highlights a perception that ethnic minorities are more able to influence things. That fits with a sense of alienation and fear I have been encountering on the doorsteps among the less wealthy and predominantly white people who have been talking of voting for "Out". In many of my doorstep conversations with people who say they want to vote out of the EU, I have been left with a sense that it is those who stand to lose most from leaving the EU who are actually being tempted to do this. It's as if their fears are being played on for the benefit of politicians whose careers would gain from Brexit.
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Following Wiltshire Conservatives' decision to cut the opening hours of our recycling centres and to impose charges for garden waste collections, incidents of fly tipping are on the rise. Here's an extract from a report to the WC 'cabinet':