A strongly worded letter has been sent by local Liberal Democrats to the Government urging them NOT to cap the 2009/2010 Surrey Police Authority budget as it will inevitably lead to cuts in frontline services.
Mark Chapman, the Spelthorne Liberal Democrats parliamentary spokesman, is not satisfied with the MPs explanation of his excessive expenses claims and has written to the Surrey Herald saying so.
The County Council elections were a spectacular success for the local Liberal Democrats. A strong performance across Spelthorne was crowned by the election of two Councillors in the Lower Sunbury and Halliford and the Sunbury Common and Ashford Common divisions.
London Irish have told members and local residents of their intention to relocate from the existing site in the Avenue, Lower Sunbury to what is currently Hazelwood golf course. Although it is proposed that the Avenue site would be redeveloped, no plans for this have yet been made public.
Local residents, supported by Lib Dem Councillor Caroline Nichols, have successfully fought off an attempt to over-develop a site in Lower Sunbury.
The Government suffered a symbolic defeat when MPs voted by 267 to 246 on a Liberal Democrat motion to give all Gurkha soldiers equal right of residence in Britain.
