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30 Most Recent News Stories
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Fri 12th Feb 2010
Proposals to reduce County Council subsidised bus services have been put out for consultation by a Cabinet meeting of Northamptonshire County Council - and sees big cuts to services across Kettering constituency, Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate Chris Nelson has warned.
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Wed 10th Feb 2010
Research by the Liberal Democrats shows that of the 27 Conservative controlled County Councils who have published their proposed Council Tax increases, Northamptonshire County Council is the highest at 3.5%.
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Tue 26th Jan 2010
The Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates for Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough have challenged their opponents to sign up to a Clean Campaign Pledge for the coming General Election, in a bid to set clear standards for the coming election.
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Fri 8th Jan 2010
Local Liberal Democrat members have chosen local campaigner Chris Nelson to be the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for the Kettering constituency.
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Thu 10th Dec 2009
Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Wellingborough Kevin Barron has reacted with disbelief - after it was revealed today that Wellingborough's Conservative MP Peter Bone had claimed for a Sky Sports television package on parliamentary expenses.
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Wed 25th Nov 2009
Liberal Democrats in Northamptonshire have reacted strongly to news that Northamptonshire County Council faces a £100m shortfall over the next five years.
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Fri 4th Sep 2009
Local Liberal Democrats have chosen local activist Kevin Barron as the Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Wellingborough & Rushden constituency.
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Thu 18th Jun 2009
Opposition councillors were silenced today at the first meeting of the County Council since the election. At Thursday's Council meeting, Conservative leader Jim Harker addressed the council on his programme for the year, with no right of reply given to Brendan Glynane as Leader of the Opposition or to any other opposition councillors.
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Thu 18th Jun 2009
Conservative County Councillors are pushing ahead with unelected Honorary Aldermen with a direct line to decision making at County Hall despite the opposition of the Lib Dem group. Former Councillors who have been turfed out by the voters will be able to take up this honorary position.
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Sat 13th Jun 2009
Liberal Democrats in Kettering have demanded answers from Kettering's Conservative MP Philip Hollobone - after a BBC investigation suggested that he broke parliamentary rules on declaring his financial interests.T
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Wed 10th Jun 2009
Liberal Democrats in Northamptonshire have thanked local residents for solid progress in county council and European Parliament elections held on Thursday 4th June - which saw the party become the official opposition on the Conservative-run County Council.
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Thu 14th May 2009
Northamptonshire Liberal Democrats launched their bid to unseat the Conservatives today in June's County Council elections - by going online.
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Wed 15th Apr 2009
A crunch financial report to County Councillors yesterday saw County Hall budgets overrun by £1.1m this year, despite one-off savings gained from new accountancy rules.
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Thu 9th Apr 2009
Bosses at County Hall have today confirmed that senior councillors failed to safeguard over £34m of taxpayers' money as part of a 'pioneering' privatisation contract.
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Thu 18th Dec 2008
Conservative-run Northamptonshire County Council has been dealt a fresh blow, as a high-profile County Councillor switched to the Liberal Democrats ahead of a crucial council meeting.
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Fri 21st Nov 2008
Liberal Democrats in Northamptonshire have demanded that East Midlands Trains abandon its plans to impose a 6% increase in the price of regulated fares, season tickets and saver tickets.
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Wed 10th Sep 2008
Conservative plans to more than triple the cost of parking permits in Kettering alongside the creation of three new 'controlled parking zones' have been slammed by local Liberal Democrats.
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Wed 13th Aug 2008
Northamptonshire County Council's Cabinet will this week be discussing a report on the Council's Equality Standard which states that the Council does not currently meet the requirements of Level 1 of the new frameworks for Equality Standard of Local Government.
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Fri 11th Jul 2008
There is to be no free "home to school transport" for the County's Sixth Form Students according to a response given by Cllr. Joan Kirkbride, Conservative Councillor for Education on Northamptonshire County Council to a question put by Cllr. John Yates, Liberal Democrat Education Spokesman on Northamptonshire County Council.
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Wed 2nd Jul 2008
Kettering Borough Council should take action to protect green space near the Ise Lodge and Barton Seagrave as a way of protecting community identity, campaigners have urged.
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Tue 1st Jul 2008
Liberal Democrat campaigners have reacted with dismay after Kettering Borough Council failed to publish in full a consultant's report on redeveloping Kettering town centre.
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Mon 30th Jun 2008
A key bypass for the villages of Weekley and Warkton - which many people deem to be an essential part of plans to build 5,500 homes in East Kettering - is unlikely to receive government funding, Northamptonshire County Council have revealed.
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Mon 23rd Jun 2008
Cllr. John Yates, Education Spokesman for the Liberal Democrat Group on Northamptonshire County Council is calling for the council to plan ahead to provide sufficiently qualified teachers for all the new schools that are being planned to be built in Northamptonshire over the next twenty years.
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Wed 11th Jun 2008
Proposals to redevelop Kettering town centre show "an urgent need for joined-up thinking", Liberal Democrats have warned.
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Tue 10th Jun 2008
Local residents have been urged to have their say on problems affecting their area, after Liberal Democrat campaigners began delivering a residents' survey to over 10,000 homes in and around Kettering.
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Fri 23rd May 2008
A planning application to build up to 5,500 homes to the east of Kettering has insufficient affordable homes, it has been revealed.
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Thu 22nd May 2008
Lib Dem Leader Councillor Brian Hoare is calling on Northamptonshire County Council to set up an all-party panel to decide as to who should be running the new schools that will be built in the county.
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Thu 22nd May 2008
Liberal Democrats have put forward proposals for Northamptonshire County Council to publish a new policy on secondary education for Northamptonshire, to achieve a balanced mix of different types of schools that provide a proper choice for parents.
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Wed 14th May 2008
Local Liberal Democrats have accused the Government of panic over plans to tackle the effect of the "10p tax rate" fiasco on the low paid by rushing in measures to raise the personal tax allowance by £600 - despite the fact that 1.1 million of the lowest paid workers will remain worse off.
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Thu 24th Apr 2008
Local Labour politicians have been urged speak out to help thousands of people on low incomes hit by the abolition of the 10p rate of income tax, as Liberal Democrat campaigners in Kettering slammed last-ditch Government concessions on the change as "an unworkable fudge".
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