National rural champion, Heather Kidd, has been elected onto the Local Government Association Rural Policy Review Group. The Rural Policy Review Group, on behalf of the Rural Commission, fulfils the role of sounding board for policy development and review on rural issues.
It's easy - and understandable - for the recent decision on Dungeness to be seen as a hammer blow to the Marsh economy. The decision to provisionally exclude Dungeness from the list of 10 sites being considered for new Nuclear build seems to put at threat the potential of 600 local jobs - maybe more. Of course we want those jobs locally, and Dungeness has a long and proud association with the safe generation of nuclear power.
In his speech yesterday to the CBI conference in London, Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg set out how to foster a rapid recovery and shape a new competitive, sustainable economy.
SATs exams have "failed a generation of pupils" according to local MP Tim Farron who was commenting after it was revealed that at least one in eight pupils in South Lakeland may have been given the wrong test level in their primary school science SATs.
Local MP Tim Farron is calling on Cumbria Primary Care Trust (PCT) to continue funding a crucial service supporting over a hundred local mothers. The work is under of threat of closure early next year unless vital funding can be found, and seven specialist staff will be made redundant.
Nick Perry, the Lib Dem parliamentary campaigner for Hastings & Rye, has slammed Hastings Borough Council for making announcements about the Pier in the purdah period before the St Helens Ward by-election, the polling day for which is 10 December.
