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20 Most Recent News Stories
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Fri 2nd May 2008
Liberal Democrats were celebrating taking 2 of the 3 seats in Peartree, the first time ever that Labour has not been the winning party there. Malcolm Cowan, (already a county councillor) and Louise Lotz, defeated longstanding Labour councillor Jacqui Russell and newcomer Dean Milliken. Frank Marsh, the third LibDem candidate, who lost in 2006 by just 6 votes, was once again unlucky, finishing just 10 votes short of Labour's Steve Roberts.
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Read "Liberal Democrats gain in Peartree as Labour slump everywhere" in full (1500 bytes).
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Wed 2nd Apr 2008
Hertfordshire is faced with around 83,000 new homes being built, if the government confirms the numbers in the draft East of England plan. This will place a massive strain on the county and homebuilders will in future have to pay a tariff for each new home, to meet some of the infrastructure costs.
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Read "Herts could lose out on £100million" in full (1916 bytes).
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Sat 8th Mar 2008
Newly selected Parliamentary Candidate, Paul Zukowskyj, has today responded to Hertfordshire County Council's consultation, suggesting that the New Barnfield site is excluded from further consideration on the grounds that is immediately next to the Southdown Special Needs School.
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Read "Waste site? NO! say Lib Dems Paul and Simon" in full (1056 bytes).
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Sat 2nd Feb 2008
Liberal Democrat leader Cllr.Tony Skottowe declared himself "well pleased" after last week's Cabinet meeting to fix the Council's Budget. When the 40% and more proposed increase in burial charges came to light at a Resources Committee meeting Cllr. Skottowe suggested that they be referred back to Cabinet with a request to bring them back in line with inflation. "Happily all my fellow councillors on the committee agreed, regardless of which party they represented." The result was that the Cabinet agreed to cut the charges back as asked. "It was a small victory for the residents admittedly", he said, "but the increases that were being proposed on cemetery and burial charges were quite out of proportion.
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Read "EXCESSIVE CHARGES "BURIED" - Let the matter rest in peace" in full (1089 bytes).
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