Local MP Tim Farron has urged the government to make good on the possibility mooted in its mid-term review of extending its successful rural fuel discount scheme to mainland rural communities like those in Cumbria.
Local MP Tim Farron has thanked Cumbria's Mountain Rescue teams for their 'commitment, bravery and determination' after a busy 2012 for the service.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has this afternoon called for local jobs to be the priority after news emerged that the company which owns Kendal's K Village shopping centre has gone into administration.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has asked local residents to join with him and vote to support Hawkshead Primary School win a classroom worth £80,000 in a competition run by the Times Educational Supplement (TES).
Local MP Tim Farron is calling on farmers from across the South Lakes to get in touch if they have not received their single farm payment from the Rural Payments Agency (RPA), so that he can step in and help.
Local MP Tim Farron has sent out petitions to 40,000 people throughout South Lakeland and Upper Eden to allow people to add their voice to the growing campaign to bring Accident and Emergency services back to Westmorland General Hospital.