The BBC have featured Dhan Gurung as the first Gurkha councillor to take office in Britain, as he promised to represent the whole community in Cheriton. Lib Dem Councillor Dhan Gurung, 39, was voted on to Folkestone Town Council in last Thursday's local elections. He served as a Gurkha in the British Army for nearly 20 years before retiring in 2004.
Maintenance work on the Coleman Road bridge will begin in ten days time, on the 20th May.
Local MP, Tim Farron, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hill Farming has criticised Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair for his poor record on rural affairs ahead of the expected announcement tomorrow of a date on which he will resign. The fiasco at the Rural Payments Agency, post office closures in rural areas and a lack of NHS dentistry are just a few areas, among many others in which Tony Blair has failed rural communities.
and challenges trusts to use it wisely Local MP, Tim Farron has received confirmation from the Minister for Health Services Rosie Winterton that the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust begun the financial year debt free, after the £6,357,000 fine for being in deficit was wiped out. However, the Minister has yet to confirm whether the Cumbria Primary Care Trust will be in a similar situation as well. Mr Farron is now pursuing the Minister to give details of the additional funds available to the Primary Care Trust.
Tim Farron, MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, will be in the hot seat at two events organised as part of the Walk Cumbria Mission; on Friday night Tim will be facing an audience of young people who have been invited to 'grill' him on issues of Christianity and politics a Question Time session with the Bishops of Penrith and Carlisle this Saturday.
Local MP, Tim Farron has today tabled a parliamentary motion in support of Cancer Research UK's 'Race for Life' campaign. The 'Race for Life' was first organised in 1994 and has since raised millions of pounds for Cancer Research in the UK. Women up and down the country will begin running their 5km 'Race for Life' this weekend.
