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20 Most Recent News Stories
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Tue 16th Feb 2010
The Liberal Democrats have slammed the Conservative county council controlled Herts Highways department as 'unbelievably inefficient', following the publication of comparative cost figures in a key county council document.
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Read "Herts Highways are incompetent" in full (885 bytes).
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Wed 27th Jan 2010
Hatfield may be getting a new town centre after all. The development consortium will be lodging a planning application in the next few days for a revised redevelopment. Your local Liberal Democrats have greeted the news with cautious optimism, tempered with the knowledge that it is still not guaranteed financially.
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Read "Hatfield Town Centre - Update" in full (1357 bytes).
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Wed 6th Jan 2010
Yet another kick in the teeth for our area. Yesterday, Peter Mandelson cut the budget for Universities by £500m. The University of Hertfordshire is a major local employer. This year they have already had to cut jobs through a voluntary redundancy scheme. The University may now be put in the position of having no alternative to a significant compulsory redundancy programme.
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Read "Mandelson: Happy Christmas, You're fired" in full (2082 bytes).
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Sat 5th Dec 2009
Liberal Democrat County Councillor Malcolm Cowan asked the Tory administration to sign up to the 10:10 campaign. 10:10 is a campaign to do as many things as possible to reduce your carbon footprint by 10% in the year 2010.
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Read " County bows to 10:10 pressure " in full (960 bytes).
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Sun 22nd Nov 2009
"NEWTS BARNFIELD" was the headline as Paul Zukowskyj released the news that the Tory-run County Council's New Barnfield Incinerator project might be "dead in the water" thanks to the presence of the Great Crested Newt a stone's throw from the site.
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Read "Paul makes Front Page of the WH Times!" in full (575 bytes).
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Fri 6th Nov 2009
At the beginning of October Tory-run Hertfordshire County Council had a surprise OFSTED inspection. These inspections were started in the light of the horrific death of Baby Peter. The report lists areas which the Council is good at, those it needs to improve and those that require urgent action. In total there are 5 areas that were meeting minimum standards, 7 that required improvements and 2 which require urgent action - both in the most serious areas. OFSTED found that the call centre was handling calls and having assistants signing off reported cases of abuse rather than trained social work managers - a practice we have criticised the council for in the past. The other was that cases dating back as far as March 2009 had not had proper case reviews. Chris White, Liberal Democrat Opposition Leader said: 'The county announced this report in very glowing terms, only briefly mentioning the serious defects in the system and praising the areas that had been highlighted as meeting basic standards. It did not mention that of the 14 bullet points nearly two thirds were areas they have to improve on to keep our children safe.' Sal Brinton, Liberal Democrat Prospective MP for Watford said:
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Read "Press release: Unannounced OFSTED catches council out" in full (1547 bytes).
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Wed 4th Nov 2009
Hertfordshire County Council Leader, Conservative Robert Gordon, made a most astonishing claim at a recent council meeting. Councillor Gordon confirmed the Council was fully committed to addressing climate change by reducing it's carbon footprint. He commented that it was even enshrined as one of the council's Core Promises.
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Read "Conservatives face both ways on climate" in full (1967 bytes).
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