South Lakes MP Tim Farron has joined with Barrow and Furness MP John Woodcock to launch 'Cumbria Better Connected', at Grange-over-Sands station last Friday. The campaign has been set up to protect the direct train from Furness and from the Lakes Line to Manchester.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today written to the Interim Chief Executive of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) Eric Morton asking him to use the current review of the hospital trust to bring back services to Westmorland General.
Local MP Tim Farron will join the celebrations this Thursday as the Olympic torch makes its way through the South Lakes. Tim is hailing the celebrations as a tribute to the work of council Leader Brendan Jameson, who died in March and who worked so hard to ensure that South Lakes got not just one but five torch stops. The torch is to arrive in Grasmere at 5.30pm and will travel to Ambleside and Bowness-on-Windermere before continuing its journey through Kendal and Milnthorpe on Friday.
Tim will join Barrow and Furness MP, John Woodcock, who will be holding a campaign morning to launch a petition to retain the direct rail service between Barrow and Manchester Airport, which is threatened by Transpennine's proposed 2014 franchise and the post-electrification service pattern.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron and fellow A590 campaigners are celebrating a major win after Roads Minister Mike Penning today pledged his support for a roundabout to be built at Greenodd junction on the A590.
Cumbrian MP Tim Farron has said a hard hitting report shows that rural communities are being short-changed by sky-high fuel prices, poor phone coverage and limited choice in the shops.