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30 Most Recent News Stories
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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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![Gordon Brown [Image: Rex Features]](/images/sites/217.160.173.25-3e54d75166df56.63810547/thumbs/471.jpeg "Gordon Brown [Image: Rex Features]")
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Sat 29th Mar 2008
Local Liberal Democrat campaigners have hailed an "encouraging" performance in the Trinity by-election, after the party increased its share of the vote by more than two-thirds, amid falling support for both Labour and the Conservatives.
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Thu 13th Mar 2008
Liberal Democrat campaigner Chris Nelson has called for Northamptonshire County Council to release the details of alleged breaches of a national admissions code for secondary schools, after the Kettering resident made a formal request for the information under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Mon 3rd Mar 2008
Local businessman Daniel Garside has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate in a surprise by-election to be held on 27th March, when voters in Trinity Ward in Rothwell will go to the polls to fill a seat left vacant by the unexpected resignation of a Conservative town councillor.
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Fri 29th Feb 2008
The competitiveness of Kettering town centre has been undermined, Liberal Democrats have warned, after Conservative councillors rejected a proposal to scrap rises in car parking charges contained in an "alternative budget" presented by the party at a meeting of Kettering Borough Council.
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Tue 26th Feb 2008
Local Liberal Democrat campaigners have put scrapping planned rises in car parking charges and tackling waste at the core of the party's "alternative budget" for Kettering Borough Council.
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Wed 20th Feb 2008
The Audit Commission has issued its verdict on the Tory run County Council and it is disappointing to learn that the County Council has not improved on its 2 Star rating and more concerning the Audit Commission only assesses the rate of improvement as adequate.
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Wed 16th Jan 2008
Users of Kettering Crematorium are to bear the brunt of filling a £100,000 'black hole' in the budget of Kettering Borough Council, Liberal Democrats have warned, as Conservative councillors prepare to consider draft budget proposals at an Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday evening.
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Mon 7th Jan 2008
Budget papers being considered by the County Council's Cabinet this coming Wednesday (9th. January 2008) show that the county saved almost £1million in November by reducing services provided by Community Services to older people, those with mental, physical health and learning difficulties.
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Wed 12th Dec 2007
Plans to extend train services to Corby must not reduce the number of northbound trains, Liberal Democrats will say at a meeting of Kettering Borough Council.
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Fri 7th Dec 2007
At a County Council meeting on Thursday 13th December, Liberal Democrat county councillors will propose that the County Council responds to the public consultation on the closure of twenty six post offices throughout Northamptonshire by supporting local communities in their fight to retain local post offices. Branches earmarked for closure include post offices at Grafton Underwood, Stoke Albany, Weekly and at Hawthorn Road, Kettering.
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Thu 29th Nov 2007
Adult Care Services Inspectors have marked Conservative policies on adult care as a 'one-star failure', said Lib Dem community services spokesperson Cllr. David Garlick. In response to the findings, the Liberal Democrats have called for the Cabinet Member responsible to resign.
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Wed 14th Nov 2007
Local Liberal Democrats have welcomed moves towards a volunteer town crier, but have warned against the prospect of spending excessive amounts of taxpayers money on the position in the future, after Lib Dem campaigner Chris Nelson spoke against employing someone to perform the role at a meeting of Kettering Borough Council.
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Mon 12th Nov 2007
Employing someone to work as a town crier in Kettering would be an extravagance, Liberal Democrats have warned, as the Conservative-run Kettering Borough Council prepares to consider the proposal at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday evening. Lib Dems have called for the post to be filled by volunteers.
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Sat 27th Oct 2007
Halfway through the financial year the Conservative County Council are admitting their high-risk budget passed in February is way off course - and that planned savings of £6m cannot be achieved.
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Thu 25th Oct 2007
A report by the Commission for Social Care Inspection shows that the services for older people provided by the County Council are "going backwards, not forwards", according to Councillor Brian Hoare, the Leader of the Liberal Democrats on Northamptonshire County Council.
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Wed 24th Oct 2007
At the end of September, the Labour Government put out to consultation a proposal to take away 5% of the surplus cash left in every school's budget and redistribute it to local authorities. Now the Conservative-run Northamptonshire County Council has topped it - by taking 8% from the unspent money of the county's nursery, primary and secondary schools!
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Sun 21st Oct 2007
Liberal Democrat supporters in Northamptonshire have until the end of October to make sure they can have their say in the vote to replace Menzies Campbell, local Lib Dem campaigners have announced.
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