DB Schenker Rail UK is to run a direct daily railfreight service, Monday to Friday, from Teesport in Middlesborough - owned by PD Ports - to Grangemouth in Scotland.
We are delighted to announce that Tim Farron has been elected as Leader of the Liberal Democrats.
What a change 10 weeks makes! In Grove Ward in Kingston-on-Thames on May the 7th (the same day as the General Election) the Liberal Democrats won a by-election by just 28 votes. On Thursday in a second by-election in the same ward on a much reduced turnout they won by nearly 900 votes - with a 60% vote share!
On Monday afternoon, a group of HomeStart Managers, volunteers, and families with their young children watched in dismay as the Conservative Cabinet of Hertfordshire County Council voted unanimously not to renew its annual funding of £392,000 for the home visiting service. This decision would also cut off the £206,000 funding provided by the County's Clinical Commissioning Groups resulting in a devastating reduction of £598,000 a year to HomeStart's funds. The impact on HomeStart and its committed band of trained volunteers will be incalculable
Liberal Democrat Tring Town Councillors Nick Hollinghurst and Roxanne Ransley proposed the following motion which instructs the Clerk to ask for the local Neighbourhood Policing Team to provide better road safety action in Tring.
