Thanks to insistent campaigning by Wolverhampton's Liberal Democrat Councillors and campaigners kerbside collections of plastic bottles, cardboard, garden waste and other recyclables are collected across the city each fortnight. Under the previous Labour regime there were no plans to introduce the collection of plastic bottles or cardboard.
Transport for London (TfL) have announced that on Monday 9th February 2009 they intend to start modernising the traffic light equipment at the intersection of Leatherhead Road with Rushett Lane and Fairoak Lane.
Councillor Ann Haigh recently spent a night with police officers in Loughton and saw at first hand the diversity of incidents that the police officers have to deal with.
Angry Chesterfield MP, Paul Holmes, has demanded a prompt response from the Government 3 weeks after he first highlighted the disastrous cuts in services facing councils around the country as a result of Government policy.
Liberal Democrat MP for Chesterfield Paul Holmes has today written to Gordon Brown to invite him to visit Chesterfield when he visits the East Midlands on Wednesday.
People today are struggling with spiralling debts, rising food and energy bills and unaffordable mortgages. A decade of complacency by Gordon Brown has meant that with plummeting house prices, falling growth, inflation problems and rising unemployment, the UK economic outlook has not looked so bleak since the 1990's Tory recession. So after the 10p tax fiasco and ineffective 2.5p VAT cut what the economic situation actually demands is a fairer economic future.
