Lib Dem Shadow Defra secretary Tim Farron has called on the Government to intervene to prevent devastation in the British Dairy industry after the collapse of Dairy Farmers of Britain.
Tim Farron, MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale and Lib Dem Shadow Defra Secretary, has spoken out against plans to change the way that funds for hill farmers are calculated.
MP Tim Farron has paid tribute to the community of Sedbergh, Dent and Garsdale and to Sedbergh's doctors after the proposal for a new health centre was approved today by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority.
Liberal Democrats are celebrating after they gained four more County Council seats - three from the Conservatives and one from Labour - within the Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency.
The Government should be doing more to provide high-speed broadband for rural communities and businesses like those in South Lakeland according to local MP Tim Farron. Mr Farron was commenting on a recent report commissioned by the BBC which revealed that an estimated three million homes in the UK have broadband speeds of less than two megabits per second (2Mbps).
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has taken action after a number of residents expressed concern about the behaviour of a minority of travellers who are settled in the Cautley and Sedbergh areas on their way to the Appleby Horse Fair.