Shadow Secretary of State for DEFRA Tim Farron MP has called on the government to press ahead with the introduction of a supermarket Ombudsman in the wake of the decision taken by milk processor Wiseman Dairies, to slash the price it pays to its farmers by 2p per litre.
The 2007 Kent Annual Public Health Report on behalf of NHS Eastern & Coastal, NHS West Kent and Kent County Council was published in January 2009, and is available online at www.kmpho.nhs.uk
The Met Office issued an extreme weather warning for England, Wales and parts of eastern Scotland. More than 110 schools, colleges and nurseries closed in the West Midlands. The afternoon meeting at Wolverhampton Racecourse was abandoned despite the famed heated all weather track. Parts of the Midlands experienced temperatures between -4C and -7C on Monday and bus services across the West Midlands were sticking only to main routes. But this was not enough to prevent Wolverhampton South West Liberal Democrats walking or cycling to a meeting to plan their next winning campaign!
Conservative plans to introduce a 33% increase (£3.00 to £4.00) in car parking charges for residents and workers who want to park for up to five hours in Brentwood's William Hunter Way and the Coptfold Road Multi Storey Car Parks were roundly condemned by the Liberal Democrats at Tuesday night's Highways Panel meeting.
Arising from a challenge by Capel Parish Council to the Surrey Waste Plan, a High Court judge has stated that he will quash SCC's recent planning permission for the Capel Incinerator. A similar thing happened to the previous planning consent given in 2001, though that was on a challenge by the Capel Action Group to the SCC officers' report to the Planning & Regulatory Committee.
A range of measures to protect and improve the local environment in neighbourhoods in Bedford Borough are set to be carried out after Liberal Democrat proposals were incorporated in the proposed first budget of the Unitary Council. The measures include further protection of open spaces from unauthorised encampments and action to tackle the problem of ugly, churned-up grass verges caused by local parking difficulties.
