Lib Dem MEP Sharon Bowles, Chair of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, has signed a petition calling for the European Parliament in Strasbourg to be disbanded in favour of one Brussels-based parliament.
This coming Monday 29 March will see the first of the televised election 2010 debates. Vince Cable will face Alistair Darling and George Osborne at 8pm on Channel 4. Following the Budget, this will be the time to see the mettle of the three Chancellors head-to-head. Don't miss it!
When the borough council had drawn a blank in getting 191 blocks of flats in the borough to expand their recycling, councillors offered to help.
Years ago, there always seemed to be a local organisation wanting used postage stamps but there are still ways of recycling them.
Following the chaos experienced in many parts of Surrey this winter, Lib Dem Councillors at County Hall called for the Conservative Administration to ensure that grit bins are ready before next winter.
Today, Britain needed a Budget that gave us honesty in spending and fairness in tax. Alistair Darling has given us neither.
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council have condemned the County's Communities Select Committee for failing to reverse plans to axe all staff from ten of the County's smaller libraries.
In a debate on the future of Surrey's libraries at County Hall this afternoon not a single Conservative councillor voted for the council to abandon its plans for Community Libraries and adopt a library policy that retains professional staff in all libraries.
In a victory for local campaigners and Liberal Democrats who organised an on-line petition with 26,300 signatures, the new Leader of Surrey County Council will this morning announce the abandoment of the County's on-street parking charge plans.
In a final act as outgoing Leader of Surrey County Council, Dr Andrew Povey and his Cabinet have pushed through unpopular plans to remove full-time staff from up to 19 of the County's libraries and end the mobile library service from this week.
It has been announced that the Conservative leader of Surrey County Council, Cllr Dr Andrew Povey is to resign at the Council's next full meeting on 11 October.
The list of libraries which the Conservative administration on Surrey County Council plans to force local communities to run, or be closed, has grown from 10 to 19 in a report for the September meeting of the County's Cabinet.
