Baroness Lynne Featherstone, the former Coalition Minister and now the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Energy and Climate Change, has urged speedy action to improve Exmouth's flood defences.
In his latest monthly column for the Bedford Bulletin, Mayor Dave Hodgson has laid out the dire funding situation in which the 2017/18 Council budget was delivered, and of the importance of the all-party support it received last month.
This week Richard Fuller confirmed at a public meeting that he would not vote to guarantee EU citizens' rights despite claiming that he supported their rights.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has vowed to continue to fight to protect local NHS services in South Cumbria, following the government's announcement in the budget that it would press ahead with savage NHS cuts. This news comes in the week that it was announced that beds would be closed and services removed from hospitals in North and West Cumbria.
South Lakeland MP Tim Farron has welcomed the news that Openreach, which runs the UK's broadband infrastructure, will split from BT. However, he has insisted that the government must not be complacent about the urgent need to improve "snail's-pace internet" in rural areas.
" I have some incredible news - moments ago, our membership reached 85,002, " Tim Farron MP said this morning