Thu, 18 Dec 2008   On his first anniversary as leader, Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg will today set out plans to put Britain on a Green Road out of the Recession, creating jobs and leaving a legacy that will save energy, put money back into people’s pockets and fight climate change. The plans will […]

  Another week, another by-election and another Lib Dem gain from the Conservatives. Just right for Christmas! This by-election, for the Cambridgeshire County Council division of Hardwick, came about as a result of the disqualification of the sitting Tory councillor. Local campaigner and activist Fiona Whelan had been preparing to fight the seat next year […]

At the recent by-election for the Teversham seat on South Cambs District Council Lib Dem Frances Amrani won the seat in a 3 cornered fight. The seat had previously been held by the Tories but this time Frances easily took first place with a 5% point margin. The third candidate, an ex-labour councillor standing as […]

Haddenham Liberal Democrat Councillor Pauline Wilson has erected home-made signs on a dangerous fen road where a grandmother died, because she is fed up waiting for the county council to take action. Cllr Wilson fears more drivers could be killed this winter on the stretch of road at Grunty Fen which claimed the life of […]

A controversial move to allow the 5,000 home Mereham new town to rise from the ashes has been attacked by East Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats. They claim a new bid for Mereham should never have been accepted by the East of England Regional Assembly.And they have accused the assembly’s chairman, Tory county councillor John Reynolds of […]

The play equipment at the Haddenham Recreation Ground is in need of upgrading. The Recreation Committee has met and decided that it should be the next project. Some of our Parish Councillors can remember playing on the equipment when they were children. The new houses being built in West End has given us an opportunity […]

Work is planed to start on November 3rd to level the Recreation Field. This will enable the football pitch to be moved towards the allotments and allow space for a cricket square. While it will cause inconvenience for the next few months it will be worth it in the end. We have managed to get […]

The Tory County Council is planning to cut £300,000 from the budget to village buses. How can we be expected to use public transport when the bus service is so infrequent? So in the end, less people will use the bus and then they will have the excuse to make more cuts “because people are […]

A bid by East Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats to kick-start the district’s troubled organic recycling service has been scotched by the Conservatives. Despite hundreds of complaints from residents that they are not receiving brown paper sacks to recycle organic waste. The bulk of material is still being sent to landfill. The Conservatives rejected a move to […]