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:| CONSERVATIVE 2.5% COUNCIL TAX PROPOSAL REJECTED (23/02/05) At a meeting of the Somerset County Council today, the Lib Dem and Labour members threw out the Conservative alternative budget proposals, which would have reduced the rise in Council Tax to 2.5%.&nbs... Read More |
| EDUCATION STANDARDS ARE SLIPPING - Letter (21/02/05) According to the Audit Commission, Somerset Education Authority has slipped from ‘excellent’ to merely ‘good’. This shouldn’t distract from the first rate job our teachers are doing but it does point ... Read More |
| LIBERAL DEMOCRATS & EUROPE - Letter (08/02/05) At a time when our country is threatened by further integration into the EU I am puzzled by how well-meaning people can be favourable to the Liberal Democrat party. Are they awar... Read More |
| LIB DEM LIES - Letter (04/02/05) There are lies, damn lies and then there are Liberal Democrat press releases and letters. Last week we read in your letters page the Lib Dem constituency agent denying that their Parliament... Read More |
| WE HAVE TO PAY FOR LIB DEM LIGHT POLLUTION - Letter (27/01/05) Not content with littering our countryside with unnecessary road furniture (which they now have to take down again, at considerable expense to the taxpayer), the Lib Dem administration at Somerset Cou... Read More |
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LIB DEM COUNCILLORS VOTE TO GIVE THEMSELVES PAY RISES
Senior Lib Dems at County Hall have come under fire for trying to give themselves pay rises at the same time as proposing to cut other Councillors' ... Read More
CONSERVATIVES SLAM "HYPOCRITE" MP
The current MP for Yeovil, David Laws, has been branded a hypocrite by Conservatives at County Hall.
This follows his inaccurate claim that f... Read More
HARD TIMES
Ken Maddock, Leader of Somerset County Council explains why his Conservative administration will have to tighten the purse strings for a while yet:
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CONSERVATIVES SLAM "IRRESPONSIBLE" MP
Conservatives in County Hall have expressed dismay at the latest unhelpful and inaccurate pronouncements by the current Taunton MP, Jeremy Browne.
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SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL DOING MORE FOR LESS
Residents in Somerset will welcome Somerset County Council's efforts to provide more for less in these difficult financial times.
As Somerset ... Read More
COUNTY COUNCIL BUDGET HIT BY DEBT DOUBLE-WHAMMY
Spiralling debt incurred by both the Labour Government and the former Lib Dem administration at County Hall has led to the drafting of an emergency ... Read More
LIB DEMS IN MELTDOWN OVER NUCLEAR
Lib Dems in Somerset face a meltdown after a split emerged over a key policy.
Even though national Lib Dem policy is strongly anti-nuclear,... Read More
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