At a special County Council meeting on Thursday 13th March Lib Dem Councillors questioned the commitment of both Kent County Council; and the government to tackling road flooding in in Kent. Areas of Shepway have been particularly hit with flash flooding in recent years.
A special meeting of Folkestone Town Council on Wednesday at University Centre, Folkestone unanimously condemned the recent cut to Folkestone Fire Services and pledged to collate figures to lobby for the reinstatement of the cut services.
Councillors in Shepway have reacted with astonishment at the news that the official magazine of Shepway District Council, "Shepway Today", has given the address of Cllr Linda Oliver, as North Road, Hythe, when she now lives in Bath.
The Liberal Democrats have today presented a petition of over 50,000 signatures calling on Gordon Brown to reverse his Government's savage Post Office closure programme. In Shepway, 5 Post Offices have recently been axed and the main Folkestone Post Office will be closed with services moved to whsmith in Sandgate Road.
Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg spoken out against new proposals on British citizenship in which school-leavers are to be encouraged to swear an oath of allegiance to Queen and country. Ex-attorney general Lord Goldsmith, who is calling for the ceremony in a report to Gordon Brown, says it would give teenagers a sense of belonging.
Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg has called on the Government to refuse permission for the new Kingsnorth coal fired power station in Kent, saying that the go ahead should be refused unless carbon capture and storage are included in the station "from day one".
Kent Online are reporting that Kent County Council says it is ready to announce a location for a semi-permanent lorry park to ease the pressures caused by Operation Stack.
On 15 March, Shepway Lib Dems will welcome Norman Baker MP to discuss his book "The Strange Death of David Kelly", which was shortlisted for the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year Award 2008. Norman Baker researched the book for over a year, and has a mass of new material, much of which has never been revealed before.
The Met Office is predicting Kent will be hit by an intense low pressure system to move east across the UK during Monday, bringing severe gales and potentially damaging gusts across some areas.
My grandmother was a Russian exile. She fled the Russian revolution as a child, escaping through Europe and finally settling here in Britain. My mother spent part of her childhood in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Indonesia.
Kent Police is continuing to run Operation Stack on the M20 as the SeaFrance officers' strike continues. Police are operating phase two of Stack, which sees the closure of junctions 8 (Leeds Castle) to 9 (Ashford West) of the coastbound section of the M20.
One of the features which marks out the way in which we Liberal Democrats as a party make our policies is that they are decided by the members, not just by the Leader and Shadow Cabinet.
