Commenting on the news that Lowther Estates have dropped plans to allow holiday house boats on Grasmere, South Lakes MP Tim Farron said: "This is a massive win for community campaigning.
New figures have revealed an alarming collapse in the number of people receiving NHS hydrotherapy care locally since the closure of the hydrotherapy pool at the former North Wing hospital site in Bedford last year.
Liberal Democrat campaigners in Westgate ward have uncovered Gloucester's hidden rubbish dump.They are demanding that the city...
The news that Medway Council has been given six months probation, to improve its failing children's services, is very worrying, say Liberal Democrats. These are very serious shortcomings, and the probation should be a wake-up call for the Conservative run administration. The findings of the Commissioner for Children's Services already follows two previous reports by Ofsted that judged the overall effectiveness of the Council's children's social care services to be 'inadequate'. Whilst we recognise that frontline staff are not to blame - and are dedicated to the children they support - there is poor oversight at a senior level. It shows they are failing children, and failing to provide an environment for good social work. Structures put in place by Senior Council Officers have clearly not worked as they have overseen a 'serious decline', - a failure of leadership at the highest level.
The new Federal Conference Committee met at LibDem HQ this Saturday to set out the agenda for York in March. The new FCC also held a meeting in November where feedback from the Autumn Conference was discussed, and officers were elected. Geoff Payne was re-elected as Chair, myself as Vice-Chair (General Purposes Sub Committee), and Jon Ball and Cara Jenkinson as Co-Vice Chairs (Conference Communications Group).
