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
East of England Liberal Democrats launch a series of podcasts about the wider party to engage members during the covid-19 crisis
Bedford Borough Council's Community Hub has today delivered the 2000th food parcel to someone in need.
Will, at least the sun is shining although I appreciate this may be no comfort to those with no garden. Here is our weekly update:
Local MP Tim Farron is encouraging people in the South Lakes to not be put off from going to hospital if they think they are ill with something that isn't coronavirus.
Mayor Dave Hodgson has recorded a short video message on the return of Green Waste collections from Monday 27th April.
After years of campaigning by Coastal Lib Dems on second homes tax loophole, a local Tory MP suddenly wakes up to a problem. For almost three years Lib Dem campaigner David Beavan (since elected as Southwold District Councillor in 2019) toiled long and hard with local activists to bring the second homes tax loophole issue to the public's attention. Featured widely in local, national press and TV, the issue was taken to Lib Dem Federal conference by David, eventually raised in the House of Lords by Lib Dem Peers and finally taken up by the current Chancellor Rushi Sunak who agreed to hold a government review of second homes business ownership and rates. The review was launched 18 months ago by Sunak when he was a local government minister and has since been seemingly kicked into the long grass; the findings never having been published.