South Lakes MP Tim Farron visited the Sun Inn in Coniston yesterday evening to see for himself the challenges facing the local pub trade. While there, Tim pulled pints and discussed the state of the Lake District pub trade with the landlord, Alan Piper, and local residents.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron is to meet the new universities minister, David Willetts MP, on Monday to press him over the future of the University of Cumbria's Ambleside campus.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron is calling on the government to work with him to help local developers build homes which have already got planning permission in an attempt to ease the housing shortage in the area.
South Lakeland MP Tim Farron has criticised the "unhelpful" timing of the decision by Defra Secretary, Caroline Spelman, to abolish the Commission for Rural Communities, with the announcement coming on the same day that the CRC formally reports back on its major inquiry into Britain's uplands.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed a review into search and rescue helicopter cover launched by the new coalition government. The government has suspended plans, announced in February, to privatise the service which would have reduced the amount of cover available in the Lake District at night.
Farming Minister, Jim Paice MP, today revealed he was sympathetic to removing the 6 day rule after South Lakes MP Tim Farron called for the regulation to be scrapped.