MP: "Two weeks to apply for regional growth funding"
Local MP Tim Farron is urging businesses to apply for a share of £300 million from the Regional Growth Fund before the deadline.
25 Nov 2013
National News
Loss of 388 council laptops described as 'not a big security breach'
THE loss of hundreds of council laptops potentially containing council taxpayers' confidential information has been dismissed as 'not a big security breach'.
DW
25 Nov 2013
MP welcomes cap on cost of credit
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed the news that the government is to introduce a new cap on the cost of payday loans.
25 Nov 2013
Westbury bypass - could it return from the dead?
Wiltshire Council still wants to build a bypass on the eastern route through the Wellhead Valley. This is despite the scheme having been comprehensively rejected by a government inspector in 2009. WC is attempting to safeguard the route as part of the Core Strategy - the planning document which will define development in the county for the next decade.
TC
24 Nov 2013
People off benefits and into work
A drop in the number of people claiming jobseekers allowance in Woking is another welcome boost to the economy, Ann-Marie Barker said today.
23 Nov 2013
The need for legislation to secure the end of child detention in immigration removal centres
Child Detention for immigration purposes has ended - but it is a policy that could be changed by a different incoming government. It must be put into legislation to stop this happening, so PLEASE contact your MP, whatever party they belong to, as soon as possible asking for their support to this non party political event. Below is a draft letter you can send, and obviously amend it accordingly, especially if you cannot be there on November 28th. Probably easiest to copy and paste into an e-mail and follow it up with a phone call. Let us know the response that you get.
22 Nov 2013