Tim Prater has thanked Cheriton residents for their support of the "Truck Off" campaign to reduce lorry parking on Cheriton High Street opposite Tesco's. The campaign has been running for 2 weeks, and already there has been a significant reduction in lorry parking in the layby.
Downing Street has at last installed energy saving bulbs throughout the building. It only took one person to change a light bulb over the famous black door at Number 10 Downing Street, but that new bulb will save energy. Sadly they intend to use the old bulb somewhere else where it will continue to waste energy. Wolverhampton South West Chair, Robin Lawrence congratulated the Prime Minister on switching to energy saving lighting even if he has been a little slow in making the change over. Robin urged the Government to go further and take steps to either ban energy wasting bulbs or put an energy wasting tax on them. Robin is backing the Ban the Bulb campaign.
The National Blood Service is suffering a continuous shortage in blood; this is despite a multi-million pound advertising campaign to encourage people of all ages, genders and ethnicities to give blood - what you may not be aware of however is the policy of the National Blood Service to deny donations from:
LibDem Councillor for Tay Bridges Ward, Fraser Macpherson, has today (10th March 2006) backed calls for all drivers to respect speed limits in Peddie Street in Dundee's West End.
Head Teachers and educationalists were appalled by Surrey County Council's intention to remove 14 posts and make all four Surrey Local Education Officer teams redundant as part of the Business Delivery Review.
Two new customer service centres have been opened in Saffron Lane and Braunstone, in addition to existing centres in New Parks and the council building on New Walk.
