DELGA sets AGM date
This year's DELGA AGM date has been set for Lancing 3 room of the Holiday Inn, Brighton, at 8pm on Sunday 16 September. All current members of DELGA paid up to date at the time will be most welcome.
18 Jul 2007
Bedford Borough Lib Dems Call for Fair Local Taxation
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats have repeated their calls for the unfair council tax to be scrapped and replaced by a fair system of local taxation based on the ability to pay. The calls follow comments from the North East Bedfordshire Conservative MP in which he said of his party that it will merely be "watching carefully" while the Labour Government continues to increase the financial pressure on local residents via the unfair and discredited council tax.
18 Jul 2007
Rochdale MP challenges Oldham counterpart
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen has condemned Oldham Labour Councillors for being prepared to see Rochdale, Milnrow and Newhey lose out from vital Metrolink funding. Rochdale Council has written to Oldham Council with their concerns and Mr Rowen has challenged Labour Minister Phil Woolas MP to 'distance himself from his colleagues' position.'
18 Jul 2007
Time to improve road safety at Foxfield level crossing says local MP
Tim Farron MP is campaigning to improve the safety of the A595 at the level crossing by Foxfield near Broughton-in-Furness. This stretch of road is one of the most dangerous in the local area having seen 14 accidents in the last 3 years, with 3 serious accidents requiring an Air Ambulance in the last 9 months alone.
18 Jul 2007
Farron calls together key players to help boost the 2008 Kirkland festival
Local MP Tim Farron has this week offered to chair a meeting between the organisers of the Kirkland Festival, the District Council and the Police to help smooth out the problems that affected this year's event. The future of the festival looked in doubt after new licensing laws concerning the sale and consumption of alcohol were introduced at the end of last year affecting Abbot Hall Park where the event is held annually.
18 Jul 2007
Farron responds quickly to safeguard effective First Responders
Local MP Tim Farron has this week met with the Area Director of the Ambulance Service North West and the regional manager of First Responders to alert them to several recent incidents when their services have failed his constituents. Last week saw two separate occasions when the Ambulance Service switchboard failed to alert the closest First Responder group to the person in need of help, resulting in no first response care being administered. The first failure occurred on the 14th July in Chapel Stile when a man collapsed outside a village shop. Instead of contacting the Langdale First Responders, one of whom was only 200 yards from the incident, the switchboard contacted another group whose only active officer deemed himself too far away to provide assistance. On the same day after man was suspected of having a stroke in his car in Copthow the Langdale group, the nearest unit, was once again not informed and a first responder did not arrive until fifteen minutes after the ambulance.
18 Jul 2007