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MP welcomes back Grange’s bridge

Local MP Tim Farron has joined with local residents to welcome back Clare House Lane bridge to Grange.

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MP steps in to help save Troutbeck Pool

After news broke that Troutbeck Bridge Swimming Pool has gone into Administration local MP Tim Farron has pledged to do all he can to save the pool.

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Hill farmers kept in poverty by red tape

Research obtained by South Lakes MP Tim Farron, who is chair of the All-Party Parliamentary group on Hill Farming, shows that many hill farmers don't apply for the Upland Entry Level Scheme (UELS)…

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Farron: ‘This is the perfect opportunity for the county council to change track and back our teaching assistants’

South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today called on the county council to change course over controversial plans to cut the salary of teaching assistants by up to 33%. Tim says that the end of the stage 2…

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South Lakes MP backs Votes at 16 campaign

South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today backed calls for lowering the voting age to 16.

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‘Save our buses’ campaign steps up fight for Sedbergh, Dent and Hincaster services

Following the successful local Liberal Democrat campaign to save bus services to Levens, Sedgwick and Natland South Lakeland MP, Tim Farron is hoping to build on the momentum of the campaign to…

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Farron steps up fight to protect BBC Radio Cumbria

Cumbrian MP, Tim Farron, is to meet with journalists for BBC Radio Cumbria on Wednesday 27th April in an attempt to protect BBC local radio from cuts to services.

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Chernobyl 25 years on – farmers still paying the price

Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, farmers in the South Lakes are still paying the price after radiation rained down on their farms in the wake of the catastrophe.

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MP celebrates success in bus campaign

South Lakes MP Tim Farron has praised Liberal Democrat campaigners, and local bus company Stagecoach for stepping in to provide bus services to Levens, Sedgwick and Natland after cuts by the…

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MP launches ‘Save our Library’ campaign

Local MP Tim Farron has today launched a save our libraries campaign in a bid to save 18 libraries from the axe. A petition has been launched asking local people throughout the South Lakes to join…

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