Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has welcomed yesterday's government announcement on the replacement Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) policy, which was shaped by South Lakeland students at Tim's recent Youth Forum.
Following the announcement of an additional £6.2million from the Government to fix the potholes in Cumbria's roads Liberal Democrat MP, Tim Farron, has pledged to get involved and physically help the highways authorities to make the repairs, but only if the Conservative Cumbria County Council ensure that the South Lakes gets its fair share of the investment.
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has today welcomed the tremendous level of local support shown to Teaching Assistants across South Lakeland, with the collection of 1,172 signatures from constituents who are backing the campaign to stop the 30% cut in teaching assistant wages.
Local MP Tim Farron has today thanked local residents for their overwhelming response to his 'Save our buses' campaign.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has written to Secretary of State for Schools Michael Gove about the Education White paper and asked him to look at making the University of Cumbria the flagship for educational teaching in the UK.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has nominated Kendal Indian restaurant Eastern Balti as our areas entry in the 2011 Tilda Tiffin cup.
