This week Mark Hunter MP for Cheadle joined forces with the Stroke Association and stroke survivors from around the country at a Parliamentary reception to help raise awareness of the emotional impact of stroke.
Families across Bedford Borough are in shock this week following the announcement from Bedford Hospital of the removal of Children's A&E and overnight care from 1st August. This follows the withdrawal of junior doctors from the paediatrics department due to concerns over their supervision by senior consultants. It is appalling that this has been allowed to happen. The stark fact is that due to this failure of management by the hospital we are facing a period as a community in which parents cannot take an injured or seriously ill child to Bedford Hospital A&E.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed news this morning that unemployment has fallen again in South Lakeland.
LGBT+ Liberal Democrats have welcomed the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act 2013 which received Royal Assent this afternoon.
On 9th July the Conservative Cabinet made a decision to cut back on School transport provision. This was a strange decision to make because:
Trowbridge Town Park will in future be maintained by Trowbridge Town Council after it was signed over from Wiltshire Council on 12 July.