The incumbent Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner has been criticised again for his pre-election tactics - this time over a paid advertisement in the Conservative County Council's propaganda magazine 'Horizons'.
Commenting on Iain Duncan Smith's resignation, Tim Farron - LibDem Leader, has called on George Osborne to follow his example.
The Liberal Democrat County Group will be bringing the following motion to Herts County Council tomorrow (Tuesday 22 March) demanding action on Highways contractor, Ringway's record. "This Council is dissatisfied with the many failures in the highways service, such as: delays in carrying out work, with routine slippage into subsequent years lack of responsiveness from many highways and contractor staff Ringway's failure to carry out the basic housekeeping, including drain clearance, maintenance of signage, litter picking on high speed roads, that has given rise to the emergency programme announced recently faults being marked as closed despite the issues not being fixed fault reports being downgraded and left unfixed even when they are serious defects fault reports being left in some cases for well over a year as "awaiting for assessment" failure to deal with flooding problems and blocked gullies speedily or at all occasions of inadequate notification and engagement with local members and calls for an al
TRING 20MPH ROAD SAFETY ZONE. HAVE YOU HAD YOUR SAY?
Led by the local footpath and environmental activist, John Savage, a group of longterm walkers, ramblers and dog-walkers recently succeeded in establishing the new Tring Town Footpath 87 based on 20 years continuous use nec vi, nec clam, nec precario ("without force, without secrecy and without permission") as the legal Latin quaintly puts it.
The government's plan to make people save for an emergency through the proposed 'Help to Save' shows how out of touch the Conservatives are with the realities of those who are struggling.