Stranded in Crete
Chairman of Local Committee, deputy group leader and Stamford ward councillor Colin Taylor, is stranded in Crete waiting for a flight home, like thousands of others in Europe.
20 Apr 2010
News
Epsom and Ewell News
Success in Local Flats!
Last week's article on trying to improve the recycling facilities available in flats has already seen the Lib Dems clock up two successes!
8 Apr 2010
Dame Annis Barn proposals
New proposals to develop the land attached to Dame Annis Barn in Burgh Heath Road, Epsom, are to come before the council at April's Planning Committee.
4 Apr 2010
Call to scrap free meals for councillors and their partners
A Liberal Democrat proposal that free meals for councillors and their partners should be scrapped, has been criticised by Residents' Association councillors as liable to "diminish the civic life of the borough". Currently meals are served free of charge to councillors and their partners at two Civic events each year, the Mayor-making and the Mayor's Reception. The cost is met from the Mayor's allowance, which in turn is funded from the Council Tax.
5 Apr 2010
Lib Dems join fight for justice for Equitable Life victims
Lib Dem MEP Sharon Bowles, Chair of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, joined Sue Doughty, Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Guildford, to meet victims of the Equitable Life scandal in Surrey and pledge their support for the campaign to compensate those affected.
17 Apr 2010
A fair deal for rail fares
The Liberal Democrats have made a commitment to restrict increases in rail fares so that they will not increase at above inflation rates, as has been the case in under both Labour and Conservatives governments.
15 Apr 2010
Surrey County Council News
Lib Dems welcome libraries U-turn - but it must go further
Surrey County Council's Liberal Democrats have welcomed the major U-turn by the Conservative administration in its plans to turn a further nine libraries into "Community Partnership Libraries", but say it doesn't go far enough.
29 Nov 2011
Lib Dem Housing Minister, Andrew Stunell, determined to get houses built
The Coalition Government has announced ambitious measures to kick start house building, help first time buyers get on the housing ladder and make social housing fairer.
29 Nov 2011
EU urged to take lead on climate after Brazil and India let the world down
On the first day of the UN's climate change summit in Durban, South Africa, UK Lib Dem MEP and President of the ELDR party Sir Graham Watson,has urged the EU to join forces with smaller nations in trying to urgently secure a new climate agreement.
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29 Nov 2011
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Blogs and Council Meetings: Government Advice to Councils
By Tim Prater, Lib Dem County Councillor for Folkestone West, Kent County Council. [Originally published by Tim Prater with the title "Access to Meetings: The Government View".]
27 Nov 2011
Nick Clegg launches £1 billion package to tackle youth unemployment
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.
27 Nov 2011
British MEP Sir Graham Watson elected President of European Lib Dems
Liberal Democrat MEP for the South West of England and Gibraltar, and former leader of the Liberal ALDE group in the European Parliament, Sir Graham Watson MEP has been elected President of ELDR, the European Liberal Democrat and Reform party, at their annual congress in Palermo, Sicily.
27 Nov 2011