Nick Clegg MEP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister, has launched the Youth Contract, a £1billion programme to get every unemployed young person earning or learning again before long-term damage is done.
Formal notices have now been published advertising details of proposed new and revised yellow line waiting restrictions, controlled parking zones and residents parking bays. The consultation is for 4 weeks ending on 22 December.
Following a heated exchange between UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP and Lib Dem MEP Sir Graham Watson during a BBC debate this weekend, in which the UKIP leader stated that "not one single British job depends on EU membership", Watson has called on Farage to justify his statements.
A new Local Enterprise Market was launched in the Market Place in Epsom High Street on 30 October. Local traders, businesses and entrepreneurs advertised their wares alongside artists, photographers and other talented local residents with craft skills to display or hobbies they are willing to share.
A meeting of the borough council's Environment Committee decided, on the chairman's casting vote, not to convert any of the 20 disabled parking bays back for general use.
Cllr Hazel Watson, Leader of the Liberal Democrat County Councillors in Surrey, said today:
Liberal Democrats in Surrey today claimed victory as the Conservatives cancelled their planned 15% tax rise in the face of overwhelming opposition from Liberal Democrat councillors and Surrey residents. However, Cllr Hazel Watson, Leader of the Liberal Democrat County Councillors, condemned the Conservative county council's budget as a charade, as the Tory administration pushed through £123 MILLION of unspecified cuts to council services.
Liberal Democrats in Surrey have written to the county's 11 Conservative Members of Parliament, asking them to back a cross party initiative on the future of social care and how to fund it.
Today at County Hall Surrey's Conservative Cabinet approved proposals for a 15% council tax rise, a referendum on the council tax on 4 May and cuts of £93 million to services in Surrey.
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council have today launched a petition against the 15% increase in council tax being proposed by the Conservative administration, the largest in the country and 9 times the rate of inflation.
Liberal Democrat county councillors in Surrey have condemned the Conservative-run county council which has today published its proposals to hike council tax by a massive 15% - the largest increase in the country and 9 times the rate of inflation.
