
A Fresh Start for Northampton after a Tory Disaster
Northamptonshire County Council was controlled by the Conservatives from 2005 to 2018.
Northamptonshire County Council was controlled by the Conservatives from 2005 to 2018.
Two rail replacement bus service has been operation Mondays - Fridays on the Hertford Loop while Network Rail complete a major upgrade to Stevenage Station.
Clwb Cymraeg Ardal Chiltern is a self-organised Welsh language reading and conversational class that has been meeting in Leighton Buzzard on term-time Tuesday evenings for 30 years - first at the Riverside Centre and lately in the Leighton Buzzard Theatre and Library Building. The group is a mix of Welsh-speaking English members and first language Welsh speakers. The meetings are a mix of conversation, grammar and discussions about Welsh media articles, both printed and radio. The group also reads modern Welsh literature and is currently reading "Y Bwythyn" by Caryl Lewis. If you are reasonably proficient in Welsh conversation you would be welcome to join us. You could contact Nick Hollinghurst on nickholl1945@btinternet.com For details of the book that was metioned visit the publisher's website www.ylolfa.com The picture shows the club's St David's Day Dinner on March 6th at Tilsworth Golf Club near Dunstable.
Tory Cllrs vote down LibDem's Green Budget amendments
Despite the scaremongering and misunderstanding that's around, the situation is clear. Vehicles of all sorts will be powered less and less by the internal combustion engine as time goes on. Diesel engines will probably remain the power source of choice for the larger lorries, but any smaller vehicle could use electric power from batteries - and anything larger with more space to spread the weight, such as a train or a boat, could do the same thing using cheaper and simpler batteries.
In a motion to Dacorum Borough Council at its Budget setting meeting on 25th February, 2020, the Liberal Democrat Borough Councillors, without opposing any of the Conservative proposals, sought to amend the budget for the coming financial year by the addition of 10 items, mainly aimed at strengthening existing measures to mitigate Climate Change.