South Lakeland MP Tim Farron has written to the Lake District National Park Authority to call for a 'common sense approach' to business signs along the A591 near Staveley.
The combination of extremely warm and very wet weather we have experienced this year has of course caused rapid growth of weeds on roads and pavements. Mayor Dave Hodgson has today announced a 'War on Weeds' programme of targeted action by the Council to tackle this extraordinarily rapid growth.
I'd covered previously Paddy Ashdown's new plans for political realignment, involving launching a new cross-party political movement. It's called More United and is being launched today.
The next edition of Liberal Democrat Newswire will include an exclusive preview of the essay on immigration Tim Farron has written for The Alternative: Towards a new progressive politics, a book designed to foster cross-party cooperation with editors from Lib Dems, Green and Labour. Looking at the state of the immigration debate in the UK in the light of the European referendum, the Liberal Democrat leader sets out a new approach to making the positive case for immigration.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron met last week in Kendal with youth volunteers participating in the National Citizen Service scheme.
Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, has called on the Cabinet Office to speed up its review into whether Sir Philip Green should be stripped of his knighthood. This follows the devastating findings of the Business and Pensions Committees into the collapse of BHS.