Local residents have been raising concerns about the future of rural post offices on MP Tim Farron's annual summer tour. Tim is visiting around 50 smaller towns and villages across the constituency as part of his summer tour, allowing him to visit some of the places which he doesn't normally reach with his regular advice surgeries.
Tim Farron MP is campaigning to improve the safety of the A595 at the level crossing by Foxfield near Broughton-in-Furness. This stretch of road is one of the most dangerous in the local area having seen 14 accidents in the last 3 years, with 3 serious accidents requiring an Air Ambulance in the last 9 months alone.
Local MP Tim Farron has this week offered to chair a meeting between the organisers of the Kirkland Festival, the District Council and the Police to help smooth out the problems that affected this year's event. The future of the festival looked in doubt after new licensing laws concerning the sale and consumption of alcohol were introduced at the end of last year affecting Abbot Hall Park where the event is held annually.
Local MP Tim Farron has this week met with the Area Director of the Ambulance Service North West and the regional manager of First Responders to alert them to several recent incidents when their services have failed his constituents. Last week saw two separate occasions when the Ambulance Service switchboard failed to alert the closest First Responder group to the person in need of help, resulting in no first response care being administered. The first failure occurred on the 14th July in Chapel Stile when a man collapsed outside a village shop. Instead of contacting the Langdale First Responders, one of whom was only 200 yards from the incident, the switchboard contacted another group whose only active officer deemed himself too far away to provide assistance. On the same day after man was suspected of having a stroke in his car in Copthow the Langdale group, the nearest unit, was once again not informed and a first responder did not arrive until fifteen minutes after the ambulance.
Local MP Tim Farron this week expressed his outrage at the Royal Mail's proposals to charge customers sending out bulk mailings higher prices in order to deliver their mail to rural areas. In a parliamentary motion this week Tim led his fellow MPs in expressing unease at these new plans which will affect many thousands of people, businesses and public sector organisations and potentially result in the loss of already endangered rural postal services.
At the latest meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hill Farming, Tim Farron, Chair of the Group and Lib Dem MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale officials from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs confirmed that farmers will be widely consulted on the replacement scheme to the Hill Farm Allowance.
