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Newcastle Is National Recycling Champion
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is celebrating after scooping a national award for its new recycling and waste service. The borough council has beat off stiff competition from unitary councils and a waste disposal authority to win the “Waste Management Award” at the Government Business Awards. The category highlights “outstanding” schemes that are cost-effective, provide a high [...]
6th March 2011
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AV Referendum Set For May
The referendum on voting reform will take place on the 5th May 2011. The choice is simple – keep the present system or vote for the Alternative Vote (AV) system The AV system is also simple Instead of a single X for one candidate you list as many as you wish in order of preference [...]
26th February 2011
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Environment
Of all the main parties, the Liberal Democrats have led the way on the Environment. In 2008 the main green campaigning groups said that we were the party that had the best proposals for dealing with the environment. The new green economy will be crucial to developing new quality jobs for ordinary people; we can [...]
25th April 2010
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NHS BUREACRACY
NHS hires 5,000 more managers Figures released last week have revealed that the number of managers in the NHS increased by 4,748 in the last year an increase of 12%, while the number of nurses only increased by 2%. The figures also reveal that: The cost of employing this many extra managers is estimated to [...]
30th March 2010
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Clean Up Politics
DO IT SOON AND DO IT SWEEPINGLY ! “This is the message we, the people, need to put to those in power in our land” says Nigel Jones, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Newcastle-under-Lyme. Tighten up on MP’s expenses and give people the power to decide whether to get rid of an MP who deliberately [...]
2nd March 2010
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