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Decisive Win for Liberal Democrats in Northchurch By-Election for a Dacorum Borough and a Northchurch Parish Council Seat

Conservative complacency took another hit on Dacorum Borough Council (DBC) on Thursday night (8th March 2018) as Liberal Democrat Lara Pringle won a decisive victory in two local By-Elections. One was to fill the vacant Northchurch Ward on DBC and the second to fill a vacancy on Northchurch Parish Council. Both vacancies had resulted from the death in January of Cllr Alan Fantham who had held both seats.

13 Mar 2018

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Lara Pringle's Northchurch Campaign off to a Good Start!

Lara Pringle lives in Northchurch and has done for over 15 years.

18 Feb 2018

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“No Lockfield Houses before New Road Traffic is sorted out!”, says Lara Pringle, LD Northchurch Candidate

Lockfield, off New Road, Northchurch is being considered for development after 2031, though this could be earlier. At the moment it is railway land and provides access to the track from a public road. As such it is infrequently used and generates very little traffic.

16 Feb 2018

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LATCos - Could these be a Better Way to Keep our Roads in Good Condition?

Local Authority Trading Companies - or LATCos in the jargon - are not new. They are authorised under the 2003 Local Government Act.

14 Feb 2018

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The Liberal Democrats have a New Leader and a New Programme

New Leader, New Party, New Programme

14 Feb 2018

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Metro Line "Cancellation" is "Not the End of the Line" - Watford Mayor and Herfordshire Leader Rally to Defend MXL

Recently was announced that Mayor of London Sadiq Khan had refused an offer of £73 million of funding from the government to start the Metropolitan Line Extension rail project (MLX). But now the Liberal Democrat Mayor of Watford, Dorothy Thornhill, has weighed in, saying this will not be "the end of the line" for the scheme.

3 Feb 2018

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I love Sportspace and postal vote letter

Sportspace: is this democracy?

The Conservative Cabinet of Dacorum Borough Council is pushing ahead with a decision to dump its own leisure experts and ignore its own sports policy, without first developing a strategy for the future of Dacorum's Leisure facilities.

26 Jan 2018

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Hertfordshire Waste Partnership Still Making Progress

The responsibility for waste is split between the district and borough councils - which are responsible for collecting household waste - and the county council - which is reponsible for setting up Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) and for disposing of all the waste arising within the county. Hertfordshire County Council must devise a Waste Disposal Strategy and this must account for commercial waste as well as all municipal waste. The Hertfordshire Waste Partnership is a consortium between all the districts and boroughs in the county and the the county council itself. This shares costs, refunds savings and explores and assesses new methods of waste disposal. It also uses the economies of scale that result from a county-wide co-ordination in order to negotiate competitive contracts for waste disposal that save money for all of Hertfordshire's council tax payers.

8 Jan 2018

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NHS figures show winter crisis is worsening

The latest figures show that the NHS's winter crisis is worsening very fast.

5 Jan 2018

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The Future is being Tested, Right Now - Zero-Emission Trains!

To be fair there are several different approaches to making short-distance suburban rail services quieter, greener, less polluting and more efficient. Most involve batteries or fuel cells and relatively short routes. However, this is one which caught my eye recently.

4 Jan 2018

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London Mayor Khan wants to Control More Suburban Rail Services - "So why not the Metro Line Extension?" ask Herts Lib Dems

Last year London Mayor Sadiq Khan set out a business case for more suburban rail services to be transferred to Transport for London (TfL).

3 Jan 2018

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Two Symbolic Anniversaries for two Top Learned Societies for Chemistry

2017 saw the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Chemistry Society in 1841. A few years later, in 1847, in recognition of the importance of this field of study and the quality of its proceedings, it received its Royal Charter.

2 Jan 2018

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News from West Hertfordshire

Decisive Win for Liberal Democrats in Northchurch By-Election for a Dacorum Borough and a Northchurch Parish Council Seat

Lara Pringle's Northchurch Campaign off to a Good Start!

“No Lockfield Houses before New Road Traffic is sorted out!”, says Lara Pringle, LD Northchurch Candidate

LATCos - Could these be a Better Way to Keep our Roads in Good Condition?

The Liberal Democrats have a New Leader and a New Programme

Metro Line "Cancellation" is "Not the End of the Line" - Watford Mayor and Herfordshire Leader Rally to Defend MXL

Sportspace: is this democracy?

Hertfordshire Waste Partnership Still Making Progress

NHS figures show winter crisis is worsening

The Future is being Tested, Right Now - Zero-Emission Trains!

London Mayor Khan wants to Control More Suburban Rail Services - "So why not the Metro Line Extension?" ask Herts Lib Dems

Two Symbolic Anniversaries for two Top Learned Societies for Chemistry

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