In the forthcoming Folkestone Central by-election (13 October) to Shepway District Council, the Conservatives have selected a candidate who lives in Selsted, more than 5 miles from Folkestone. Local residents will have to choose between local Lib Dem Maureen Kincaid Speller, who lives in central Folkestone, and the Tory candidate from the village north of Densole.
Banning prisoners from voting breaches their human rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. This ruling looks likely to force a change in British law on parliamentary and local elections.
Chelmsford's Lib Dem Parliamentary spokesman Stephen Robinson raised the Broomfield Parade Post Office closure to national level when he featured it in his speech at the national Lib Dem conference in Blackpool.
The Annual General Meeting of the Shepway Liberal Democrats will be held on 25 November from 7.30pm at Newington Village Hall, Newington. All members of the Shepway Local Party are welcome and invited to attend. The AGM will receive reports from the last year, and elect officers, executive members and conference representatives for 2006.
Epping High Street has attracted the interest of significant national shop chains in recent months. First Costa Coffee moved into the old Dixons store, followed by Holland and Barrett who took over the empty Co-op chemists store. Local Lib Dem councillors welcomed the fact that they have kept the 'traditional-style' bow windows and repainted the shop front attractively. "This is a real contrast to some shops which don't appear to think about the impact of their facias or let the corporate identity override everything," said town councillor Janet Hedges.
Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary speaking on the latest report from DEFRA said "This report is yet another piece of hard-hitting evidence that climate change has arrived and is beginning to have a major effect on the natural world."
