The former Conservative Member of Parliament for Blackpool North, Harold Elletson is visiting Tim Farron's constituency this Friday for a coffee morning with local members of the Liberal Democrats.
Local MP Tim Farron has written to the Competition Commission today asking that they look into the conduct of pub chains in relation to lessees. Mr Farron has tabled a Commons Motion criticising the pub chains that have in many cases been raising rent and other costs, forcing many pub landlords into hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of debt.
Tim Farron MP, the Liberal Democrat Countryside Spokesman, today congratulated the local winner of the Countryside Alliance's third annual Best Rural Retailers Competition. This year the winner of the Cumbria area of the competition was Garth Steadman, proprietor of 'Steadman's Butchers.' Steadman's Butchers have won this award whilst being supplied almost exclusively through locally reared meat.
Local MP Tim Farron has today encouraged all schools in Westmorland and Lonsdale to sign up to the Fairtrade Schools scheme.
Local MP Tim Farron has today encouraged all schools in Westmorland and Lonsdale to sign up to the Fairtrade Schools scheme.
Local MP Tim Farron has received confirmation that the Health Minister, Ann Keen is urging bosses from Cumbria Primary Care Trust, the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust and the North West Ambulance Service to come together with Mr Farron and explain the apparent inconsistencies in NHS bosses' promises to local people as part of their proposed cuts in acute services at Westmorland General Hospital.
