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MP warns of a huge blow to the Cumbrian tourism industry unless HS2 stops in the county
Local MP Tim Farron has written to the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to make the case for HS2 trains to stop in the county.
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MP calls for Government apology to the hundreds of women in the South Lakes who were affected by breast cancer screening blunder
Local MP Tim Farron has called for the Department for Health to apologise for causing "severe distress and anxiety" after 475 women in Westmorland and Lonsdale were wrongly told they had missed…
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MP holds meeting with the Environment Agency and challenges them to look again at plans to fell over 700 trees in Kendal
Local MP Tim Farron met with the Environment Agency's Flood Risk Manager for Cumbria, Stewart Mounsey, yesterday to encourage him to review plans to chop down over 700 trees as part of its flood…
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MP asks for local headteachers’ support in battle to improve special needs funding
Local MP Tim Farron has sent a survey to every headteacher in his constituency asking for their thoughts on what needs to be done to change the funding system for children with special educational…
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MP asks Chancellor to halve business rates for local firms this Christmas in Parliament
On the floor of the House of Commons this afternoon, South Lakes MP Tim Farron urged the Chancellor to give local businesses on the high street a much-needed tax break this Christmas.
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MP thanks local postmen and women as they gear up to deliver a first-class Christmas
South Lakes MP Tim Farron visited the Royal Mail Delivery Office at Troutbeck Bridge this morning to see first-hand the operation of delivering Christmas post and to pass on early Season's Greetings…
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MP secures meeting with minister to tackle excessive second home ownership in the South Lakes
On the floor of the House of Commons this afternoon, local MP Tim Farron secured a meeting with the housing minister to discuss problems connected with excessive second home ownership in South…
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Government would rather chuck money down the drain on ‘Crossfail’ than invest in the North - MP
Commenting on the news that Crossrail has received a £1.7bn bailout from the Government, South Lakes MP Tim Farron said:
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MP welcomes Government decision to further lower cap on rental deposits
Local MP Tim Farron has welcomed the Government's decision to further reduce the maximum the number of weeks' rent a landlord can charge tenants as a deposit, to the equivalent of five weeks' rent.
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Give Christmas boost to local shops by cutting their business rates, MP tells Chancellor
Local MP Tim Farron has written to the Chancellor, calling for him to give high streets a boost this Christmas by taxing internet companies to fund cuts to their business rates.
