Cllr Andy Swain
Ward: Teign Valley
Parishes: Ashton ; Bridford ; Christow ; Doddiscombsleigh ; Dunsford ; Hennock ; Tedburn St Mary ; Trusham
Mobile: 07756 253908
Email: andrew.swain@teignbridge.gov.uk
Federal Policy Committee meetings report: February 2023. From Jeremy Hargreaves, vice-chair of the Federal Policy Committee.
A man who dumped packaging from a television in Rutland Road, Bedford this month has paid a Fixed Penalty Notice for fly-tipping. The Fixed Penalty Notice for fly-tipping is £400 which can be reduced to £300 with an early payment discount.
This week was food waste action week 🧅🍌🍍🥚 Apps like Too Good To Go, food waste action charities and initiatives are great. Of...
We have all been appalled by the new Asylum Bill announced last week. If passed into law this Bill will stop anyone who arrives on a small boat putting in an asylum claim in the UK - it will be deemed inadmissible meaning the Home Office won't even consider the claim, This is despite the fact that two thirds of all people who crossed the Channel last year would have their claim for asylum accepted. Everyone arriving on a small boat will be detained and removed. This means that people who have come here fleeing war and persecution and already traumatised are locked up - at enormous cost and despite the lack of spaces in detention centres - and a realistic chance of them being removed. The refugee agencies and others including the Archbishop of York and, as you may have heard, Gary Linekar have strong condemned this inhumane and totally unworkable proposal. You can read more about the Bill and the Refugee Council's response here.
CONSERVATIVE councillors in Wirral have voted for a Council Tax rise despite campaigning against the proposal on the doorstep.
Chesterfield Civic Society recently hosted a public meeting to discuss "the way forward" for Chesterfield's town...