Local businesses have been responding to local MP Tim Farron's business survey. Tim spent Easter week calling on businesses in Kendal, Ambleside, Windermere, Sedbergh, Kirkby Lonsdale, Milnthorpe, Grange and Cartmel. At each business he visited he left a business survey, giving businesses the chance to share their experiences of the recession.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed the news that coastguard chiefs are to provide new rescue vehicles following his campaign for a replacement for the Arnside rescue boat.
Tim Farron is backing local people suffering from M.E-otherwise known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome-who could have a valued specialist advice service removed. It has been revealed that National Lottery funding for the Morecambe Bay M.E specialist adviser is due to run out in the summer.
Westmorland and Lonsdale's MP Tim Farron has described Alistair Darling's budget announcement today as " staggeringly unambitious" and has expressed his disappointment at the lack of action to help people and businesses in South Lakeland struggling under the recession.
Businesses at Yew Tree Barn, Low Newton have received a vital boost after South Lakes MP Tim Farron won the right to keep a sign indicating its location to passing motorists on the Low & High Newton bypass.
Liberal Democrat Defra Spokesperson Tim Farron MP is calling for local authorities to be allowed to build council houses in rural areas, as the current economic difficulties push British workers into seasonal agricultural jobs formerly occupied by migrant workers.
