5 teams battled it out at Pent Valley Leisure Centre to become the first Shepway Lib Dems 5-a-Side football champions. "Guildhall" went away with the trophy, with team leader Alex McNeice promising to look after it carefully until next year!
The Liberal Democrats have unveiled plans which they say would lift five million people out of "relative poverty" and end "dependency culture". The party plans to introduce incentives for working, saving and studying. It also wants to remove higher earners from the Tax Credits system and cut the number claiming means-tested benefits by 10 million by 2020. The party promised to tackle "causes", rather than "symptoms", of the UK's "massive inequalities".
Discover Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh have released their July newsletter - featuring the key news that the organisation's short term future has been secured by support from a range of Councils including Folkestone Town Council.
Folkestone Town Council has taken the lead on getting street litter bins repainted in Folkestone. A motion proposed by Councillor Emily Sanger for the lead Lib Dem group and backed by the full Council last week has agreed funding of £3,000 for a project to repaint around 50 bins, concentrating on Folkestone Town Centre and bins on main roads.
Well known Shepway Lib Dem campaigners Darren Briddock and Miranda Roberts have had some of their exploits at the recent Ealing Southall by-election written up in this weeks Liberal Democrat News. Both were key members of the Ealing team dedicating many days to the campaign - in which the Lib Dems slashed the Labour majority and the Tories remained in a humiliating third place - but the write-up came for their work after the polls closed.
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats have reacted with astonishment after the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government gave the go-ahead for a controversial housing development off Norse Road, overturning the decisions of both the Borough Council and the Planning Inspector.
