A controversial decision to resist an enquiry into the future use of 18,000 acres of council-owned farmland has this week prompted six local councillors to stage a dramatic walkout, claiming that there has been a 'cynical and shameless manipulation of the system.'
Nearly 200 students at the Anglia Ruskin university Freshers' Fair on Tuesday signed the Lib Dem petition to scrap tuition fees and many backed the establishment of a Lib Dem Students Society at the university.
Balderstone and Kirkholt Councillor - Dale Mulgrew has teamed up with Paul Rowen MP, the local community and the Rochdale and Oldham Groundwork Trust to clean up Sudden Brook.
Climate Change will be the topic of discussion on Saturday, when Rochdale's first Climate Change Conference comes to Town. Taking place at Richmond Hall from 10am till 3pm, this will be a chance to discuss how Rochdale can do their bit to half Climate Change. There are still a few places left, and the organisers have drafted extra chairs in for anyone turning up on the day.
Driving a car is a slow form of transport if you are trying to get around Chelmsford, according to a transport race staged last Friday. It was 'In Town Without My Car' day and a bus, a car, cyclists and a pedestrian competed to see who would be first to get to the steps of county hall in Chelmsford's town centre from the Moulsham Lodge neighbourhood.
Shepway District Council have forced through a plan to sell land in Weymouth Road for a housing development against the wishes of 97.5% of local residents and Folkestone Town Council.