Research obtained by South Lakes MP Tim Farron, who is chair of the All-Party Parliamentary group on Hill Farming, shows that many hill farmers don't apply for the Upland Entry Level Scheme (UELS) because of excessive red tape. Many also don't apply because their landlords simply will not allow them to.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today called on the county council to change course over controversial plans to cut the salary of teaching assistants by up to 33%. Tim says that the end of the stage 2 appeals process gives the county council a window of opportunity to re-grade teaching assistants fairly and to honourably admit that they have got it wrong.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today backed calls for lowering the voting age to 16.
Following the successful local Liberal Democrat campaign to save bus services to Levens, Sedgwick and Natland South Lakeland MP, Tim Farron is hoping to build on the momentum of the campaign to restore bus services to Sedbergh, Dent and Hincaster.
Cumbrian MP, Tim Farron, is to meet with journalists for BBC Radio Cumbria on Wednesday 27th April in an attempt to protect BBC local radio from cuts to services.
Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, farmers in the South Lakes are still paying the price after radiation rained down on their farms in the wake of the catastrophe.
