http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Stevenage Liberal Democrats en-GB Stevenage Liberal Democrats http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Stevenage Liberal Democrats 2010-07-30T12:18+01:00 United Kingdom http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000066/new_cycle_map_launched.html Stevenage Borough Council has published a handy pocket sized map of the town's cycle routes. The map is available free of charge and is a comprehensive guide to Stevenage's 45 km of cycle paths. 2010-07-27T11:02+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000065/anger_at_council_payoff.html The Comet featured this story on Thursday, 1 July, 2010. It details how Stevenage Borough Council paid Peter Ollis, former chief executive almost £170,000 after he left his post. 2010-07-22T10:06+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000064/trees_damaged_by_herts_highways_contractor.html Three mature trees have been so badly damaged by Hertfordshire County Council contractors working for Herts Highways on pavement repairs at Mobbsbury shops, Mobbsbury Way, Stevenage, that the tree officer for Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) was called in and ordered the immediate removal of two of the trees and severe pruning of the third tree on safety grounds. 2010-07-12T19:50+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000063/borough_councils_sickness_rate_highest_in_herts.html Figures released this week by Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) reveal that sickness absence amongst the council's staff is over 40% higher than the next worst local council in Hertfordshire. Sickness absence levels at Stevenage Homes, which is the "arms length" organization running SBC's housing stock, is almost as bad, at over 33% higher than the next worst local council in Hertfordshire. 2010-07-09T17:14+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000062/council_pays_officials_more_than_4_times_local_newspaper_rate.html Recent scrutiny research by councillor Robin Parker, Liberal Democrat group leader on Stevenage Borough Council (SBC), has revealed that the Labour dominated council pay up to 17 p a copy for council officials to deliver 35,000 copies of the SBC propaganda magazine Chronicle, four times a year. A local newspaper pays its deliverers 4 p a copy - and each newspaper weighs over six times that of Chronicle. 2010-07-05T22:57+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000061/16000_town_twinning_entertainment_inappropriate.html Scrutiny research by Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) Liberal Democrat group leader, councillor Robin Parker, has revealed that the Labour dominated council spent about £16,000 of local council taxpayers' money in May on 4 nights and 2 days entertainment for some Labour and Conservative local councillors, SBC officials and 17 guests from the French and German twin towns of Autun and Ingelheim (7 from Autun and 10 from Ingelheim) - but there was only one business meeting in the weekend concerned. 2010-07-02T20:58+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000060/two_stevenage_borough_council_bungles.html Within the last week, Environment officials at Labour dominated Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) have notched up two separate location errors within Stevenage. 2010-06-30T21:09+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000059/10k_against_10k.html Local Liberal Democrats have launched their petition to Tory controlled Hertfordshire County Council, to get them to reduce from 10,000 to 1,000 the number of signatures needed for the council to debate a petition. Read the whole story, follow the link below and sign the petition please. 2010-06-07T19:14+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000058/comet_confirms_lib_dems_are_main_opposition_at_stevenage_council.html In her Last Word column (Stevenage Comet, 3.6.2010 page 4) impartial reporter Louise McEvoy at last writes what we have known and said for at least 28 years - that it is the Liberal Democrat Group who consistently challenge, question and hold to account the huge Labour majority at Stevenage Borough Council. 2010-06-07T16:56+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000057/chells_ward_and_manor_ward_neighbourhood_forum.html See details below for the next meeting. Come along and have your say. Your local Liberal Democrat elected councillors will be there. 2010-06-07T16:10+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000056/june_2010_liberal_democrat_news_chells_ward_and_manor_ward.html Here is the latest (June 2010) issue of our neighbourhood newsletter for local residents in the two Stevenage Borough Council wards of Chells and Manor. 2010-06-04T17:21+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000055/herts_highways_bungle_over_dangerous_road.html Herts Highways, set up and run by Tory dominated Hertfordshire County Council, have written to Chells County Councillor, Liberal Democrat Robin Parker, to say they could not find an orange flasher at a zebra crossing on Mobbsbury Way, Chells, Stevenage, which was reported to them by Robin on 22.5.2010, because it is out - despite Mobbsbury Way being a road currently under investigation by Herts Highways for safety concerns. 2010-05-29T20:24+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000054/labour_grab_everything.html At the Annual General Meeting of Stevenage Borough Council on 26.5.2010, Liberal Democrat opposition group leader, Robin Parker, spoke on 5 separate examples which were forced through by the huge Labour majority at the meeting, whereby Labour "grabbed everything they could". 2010-05-27T20:09+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000053/labour_grab_the_mayor_again__permanently.html In a move described as "outrageous, undemocratic and contemptible" by Councillor Robin Parker, Liberal Democrat opposition group leader on Stevenage Borough Council, the ruling Labour majority group on Stevenage Borough Council have today announced that the Mayor of Stevenage must always be Labour again. 2010-05-25T13:55+01:00 http://www.stevenagelibdems.org.uk/news/000052/julia_davies_and_robin_parker_back_the_campaign_for_fair_votes.html Now that the new government has been agreed, Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Stevenage, Julia Davies, and also Stevenage Borough Council Liberal Democrat leader and local party Chair, Robin Parker, have both signed the petition calling for fair votes organised by the campaigning group Take Back Parliament. 2010-05-20T17:03+01:00