Local MP Tim Farron has called on the county council to increase the support offered to children with Downs Syndrome in South Lakeland, following a visit to the South Lakes early years Downs Syndrome support group at St Thomas' school in Kendal.
Figures released today show that our area has the third lowest unemployment in the UK. The news has been welcomed by South Lakes MP Tim Farron.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has thanked local businesses after figures showed that since 2010 over 22,000 apprenticeships have been created in Cumbria.
At the start of Trustees' Week, which runs from 10 -16 November, South Lakes MP Tim Farron has thanked local charity staff, volunteers and trustees for their dedicated work in running organisations throughout the South Lakes. Tim is also urging local residents with specific skills in high demand like book-keeping, project management and senior management experience to look at becoming a trustee.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed the news that Kendal's Comic Arts Festival has announced its 2015 dates. The third Annual Lakes Comic Art Festival will be held from 16 to 18 October 2015.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron welcomed the government's decision to address an anomaly which meant that a small number of War Widows and Widowers were not receiving their pension entitlement.
