The Witney Parliamentary By Election saw a huge swing to the Liberal Democrats of 19.3% as the Conservative vote fell back from 60% in 2015 to 45% yesterday. If repeated across the UK a movement in support like this would mean a loss of 26 seats from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats. This would wipe out Theresa May's majority.
The basic unit of the Liberal Democrats is the Local Party, but local parties together are organised into regions - in our case the East of England Region.
Please note that extensive work is planned covering a stretch of about 2 miles of the B488 Icknield Way, Tring starting on 31st October, 2016. The length affected will stretch from the A41 Tring Bypass roundabout down to the New Mill roundabout. The work will be done in stages but it is likely there will be considerable disruption at times.
Government approval for a new 400 metre length of track in Tinsley, Sheffield, means that work can now go ahead to complete UK's first tram-train project.
Planning permission for the new Cambridge North Station, which is expected to handle 3,000 passengers a day in the north east of the city, was originally granted in 2013. However, when Cambridgeshire County Council, the original promoters of the new station, had to hand the project over to Network Rail, it was decided that a second planning application would have to made and the whole process repeated. Thie time taken to do this then led to the project being delayed further since it became entangled in various financial reviews. Altogether these administrative obstacles pushed the completion back by nearly three years
Obviously over eating and insufficient exercise are factors in increases in central body fat - but a study published in the Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine has, in addition, provided evidence of an association between exposure to traffic noise and larger waistlines.
Liberal Democrat Adrian England aka #libdad has won the Adeyfield West by-election with a strong endorsement from the residents of Adeyfield. The result was:
Yesterday, Tim Farron delivered his leader's speech to Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference in Brighton. In it, he talked at length about where we, as a country go from here, about Brexit and the politics of fear, division and hate.
Following the death of Dacorum Councillor Sharon Adshead a by-election has been called for Thursday 29th September for a Dacorum Councillor to work alongside Cllr Ron Tindall (Lib Dem) on the Council.
In this report I have four roads around Hemel which will be facing disruption in the coming weeks.
There were only two local council by elections this week.
Yes, Britain's been doing very well recently - or at least until Brexit came along to spoil everything. From 2000 to 2015 UK's GDP rose by 4 trillion pounds.
