http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Stevenage Liberal Democrats en-GB Stevenage Liberal Democrats http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Stevenage Liberal Democrats 2010-09-09T07:34+01:00 United Kingdom http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000070/robin_parker_fights_to_save_street_light_project.html Local Chells county councillor and Manor borough councillor, Robin Parker, has made strong representations to the government, to allow at least some of the proposed spending to refurbish all of Hertfordshire's street lights. 2010-09-06T12:26+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000069/100_club.html Enjoy a little 'flutter' every month, and in the process assist Stevenage Liberal Democrats to become an even stronger force in Stevenage community politics. 2010-08-25T21:58+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000068/bsf_decision_welcome.html The decision, announced on 6.8.2010, by Michael Gove, Education Secretary, to allow the capital spending projects for rebuilding three Stevenage schools to go ahead, has been warmly welcomed by the local borough and county councillor for the area involved, Liberal Democrat Robin Parker. 2010-08-10T22:31+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000067/come_biking_with_the_bobbies_on_sunday_8th_august_2010.html Police Officers from the Stevenage Safer Neighbourhood Team are staging a 4-5 mile ride taking you along the cycle paths of Stevenage through Fairlands Valley Park and Monks Wood before finishing back at the Town Gardens. 2010-08-04T21:20+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000066/new_cycle_map_launched.html Stevenage Borough Council has published a handy pocket sized map of the town's cycle routes. The map is available free of charge and is a comprehensive guide to Stevenage's 45 km of cycle paths. 2010-07-27T11:02+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000065/anger_at_council_payoff.html The Comet featured this story on Thursday, 1 July, 2010. It details how Stevenage Borough Council paid Peter Ollis, former chief executive almost £170,000 after he left his post. 2010-07-22T10:06+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000064/trees_damaged_by_herts_highways_contractor.html Three mature trees have been so badly damaged by Hertfordshire County Council contractors working for Herts Highways on pavement repairs at Mobbsbury shops, Mobbsbury Way, Stevenage, that the tree officer for Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) was called in and ordered the immediate removal of two of the trees and severe pruning of the third tree on safety grounds. 2010-07-12T19:50+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000063/borough_councils_sickness_rate_highest_in_herts.html Figures released this week by Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) reveal that sickness absence amongst the council's staff is over 40% higher than the next worst local council in Hertfordshire. Sickness absence levels at Stevenage Homes, which is the "arms length" organization running SBC's housing stock, is almost as bad, at over 33% higher than the next worst local council in Hertfordshire. 2010-07-09T17:14+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000062/council_pays_officials_more_than_4_times_local_newspaper_rate.html Recent scrutiny research by councillor Robin Parker, Liberal Democrat group leader on Stevenage Borough Council (SBC), has revealed that the Labour dominated council pay up to 17 p a copy for council officials to deliver 35,000 copies of the SBC propaganda magazine Chronicle, four times a year. A local newspaper pays its deliverers 4 p a copy - and each newspaper weighs over six times that of Chronicle. 2010-07-05T22:57+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000061/16000_town_twinning_entertainment_inappropriate.html Scrutiny research by Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) Liberal Democrat group leader, councillor Robin Parker, has revealed that the Labour dominated council spent about £16,000 of local council taxpayers' money in May on 4 nights and 2 days entertainment for some Labour and Conservative local councillors, SBC officials and 17 guests from the French and German twin towns of Autun and Ingelheim (7 from Autun and 10 from Ingelheim) - but there was only one business meeting in the weekend concerned. 2010-07-02T20:58+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000060/two_stevenage_borough_council_bungles.html Within the last week, Environment officials at Labour dominated Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) have notched up two separate location errors within Stevenage. 2010-06-30T21:09+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000059/10k_against_10k.html Local Liberal Democrats have launched their petition to Tory controlled Hertfordshire County Council, to get them to reduce from 10,000 to 1,000 the number of signatures needed for the council to debate a petition. Read the whole story, follow the link below and sign the petition please. 2010-06-07T19:14+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000058/comet_confirms_lib_dems_are_main_opposition_at_stevenage_council.html In her Last Word column (Stevenage Comet, 3.6.2010 page 4) impartial reporter Louise McEvoy at last writes what we have known and said for at least 28 years - that it is the Liberal Democrat Group who consistently challenge, question and hold to account the huge Labour majority at Stevenage Borough Council. 2010-06-07T16:56+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000057/chells_ward_and_manor_ward_neighbourhood_forum.html See details below for the next meeting. Come along and have your say. Your local Liberal Democrat elected councillors will be there. 2010-06-07T16:10+01:00 http://stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000056/june_2010_liberal_democrat_news_chells_ward_and_manor_ward.html Here is the latest (June 2010) issue of our neighbourhood newsletter for local residents in the two Stevenage Borough Council wards of Chells and Manor. 2010-06-04T17:21+01:00