This morning Cumbrian MP Tim Farron has welcomed £243,000 to help Year 7 pupils who didn't reach the expected level in literacy and maths when they finished primary school in Cumbria to catch up with their classmates who did.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has thanked South Lakeland District Council for agreeing to scrap overnight car parking charges. Tim also singled out Ambleside councillor Heidi Halliday for praise after her campaign to make sure communities within the National Park did not lose out.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has secured an agreement from the Prime Minister David Cameron that he will intervene to help secure a radiotherapy unit for Westmorland General Hospital.
Commenting after the news that Cumbria County Council rejected the plan to move to Stage 4 of the Managing Radioactive Waste Safely (MRWS) process, South Lakes MP Tim Farron has reiterated his call on Copeland Council and the Government to take the Lake District National Park out of any plan for a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF).
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has backed the NFU and called on the government to do more to help sheep farmers. Today Tim has joined the NFU's 'Great Lamb Robbery' campaign.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has called on the Government to take action to help farmers who have part of their farm wrongly labelled as 'common land'.
