Teignbridge Lib Dems are looking for a part time Organiser / Agent. This is a new temporary post for the 2019 local elections. Starting early in February, the employment will last 3 months. Following the local elections on 2nd May there will be some working days to complete the election expense returns.
It's good news today for councils with the Prime Minister's announcement that the borrowing cap which has prevented them investing in much needed social and affordable housing is to be lifted.
Liberal Democrats across the Newton Abbot constituency selected Martin Wrigley as their candidate to become the next MP for the Parliamentary seat, which extends from Ipplepen to Kenton, including Teignmouth, Dawlish, Kingsteignton and Newton Abbot.
Nearly £1 million in uncollected council tax, business rates and debts has been written off by Teignbridge Council in the past two years.
Children across Devon may lose the right to free school dinners when the new term starts after the Easter holiday as Government imposed changes start to bite.
Hard-up Teignbridge Council has spent over £3.4 million hiring agency staff, figures revealed today by the Liberal Democrats confirm.
Lib Dem candidates have won both seats contested in the Dawlish Central and North East by-elections on February 15th 2018.
News today of an extra £6.5million to repair Devon's potholed roads is welcomed by the County's Liberal Democrats.
Responding to the final Local Government Finance Settlement published today, Lord Porter, Chairman of the Local Government Association, said:
The boss of Teignbridge car parks is being challenged over a broken promise that parking charges at Dawlish Warren will not go up this year.
Exeter's long awaited new railway station at Marsh Barton is running late.... in fact, so late it's years behind schedule with no sign of being built as costs sky rocket, says concerned local county councillor Alan Connett.
A 'gagging clause' in the small print of an agreement by all the councils in Devon and Somerset to set up a special new 'Joint Committee' will stop the media and residents from asking questions about how public money is being spent.
'Cost before care' is a chilling policy shift for looking after elderly and vulnerable adults in a new Devon County Council report the authority is being asked to approve, say the county's Liberal Democrats.
I was absolutely delighted to be contacted by a local resident and member of WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) asking whether I would give my support to their campaign. Of course I was, I said - I really do share their concerns about the women who are impacted by changes to the state pension age. In the letters I've received, campaigners pointed out that some of the changes made to the Pensions Act in 2011 (whilst the Lib Dems were in coalition) meant that the equalisation of the State Pension Age has been accelerated. This means that women born in 1953 -4 will be affected by the increase in the State Pension Age (SPA) from 65 to 66, and women born between 1954 and 1960 will see an increase in their SPA to 67. This modest change has saved the public purse tens of billions of pounds. However, during the time when the Liberal Democrats were informing women about the changes, many women discovered that they had not previously been informed about the initial major jump in the State Pension Age from
Marie Chadwick has been officially nominated and accepted as a candidate for the General Election on June 8th 2017.
On May 6th 2017 Newton Abbot Lib Dems unanimously approved our candidate for Westminster to represent the Newton Abbot constituency.
