Euro MPs voted in Strasbourg on Wednesday on the EU budget for 2011, at the same time as the Coalition Government announced details of the Comprehensive Spending Review, set to reduce the UK budget by some 6% each year for four years.
Mole Valley Lib Dems won a seat from the Conservatives in Thursday's District Council by-election in Capel, Leigh and Newdigate. This means that the Liberal Democrats are now the largest group on Mole Valley District Council.
This week I popped over to Pavenham Village Hall and Playing Fields to see the solar panels putting installed in the first project supported by the Mayor's Climate Change Fund. I was met by Members of the Pavenham Village Hall and Playing Fields Charity, while the guys from S.A. Solar, the Bedford firm installing the panels, were obviously also on hand. Congratulations must go to the Charity's members for pursuing this excellent project, for which they were awarded over £8,000 (50% of the total cost) from our new fund.
MP Julian Huppert has taken up the fight to get a fairer deal for tenants who were told by the Labour government to move out of Cambridge to find cheaper homes.
Ballot papers have now been despatched to everyone who was a current member of the Liberal Democrats on 28th September for the election of a new Party President.
Colchester MP Bob Russell has warned that plans by the Government to cut housing benefit could result in a bigger cost to the public purse - because local councils have a legal obligation to provide accommodation for homeless people, and such costs per household are much greater than housing benefit.
