Farmers still paying the price of the Chernobyl disaster 24 years after the radiation rained down on the Lake District fells will be given more money to help pay for costs under Lib Dem proposals announced today by South Lakeland MP Tim Farron.
MP Tim Farron has hailed the public meeting held in Sedbergh with the police, council and 100 local residents a 'major step forward' in preventing the anti social behaviour that has plagued the Sedbergh area in the run up to Appleby Horse Fair in recent years.
MP Tim Farron tonight will be chairing a meeting of police, council officials and local residents in Sedbergh to allow the public to ask questions to the police and local authorities about the new plans recently agreed to prevent a repeat of last year's anti-social behaviour by a minority of travellers in the weeks preceding Appleby Horse Fair.
South Lakeland MP Tim Farron joined a group of carers from 'Carers Poverty Alliance' to hand in a 700-strong petition to Downing Street yesterday, urging the Government to provide more financial help to carers. The handing in of the petition was also supported by a large group of carers who had travelled from all over the country to make their voice heard by the Prime Minister.
Tim Farron has welcomed agreement from the Minister for Higher Education David Lammy MP to consider allowing the University of Cumbria to increase its income by £4million a year by recruiting an additional one thousand students.
Local MP Tim Farron has today blasted the authorities as local residents in Backbarrow continue to deal with life without their vital local foot bridge which collapsed in last years floods
