Just a reminder, there will be a meeting tonight at Sneyd School in Vernon Way.  If you are a parent, a student, a member of staff, a member of community or if you have kids at one of the Primary Schools in the area, be there if you possibly can. Sneyd needs your support [...]

Lib Dem Focus Team councillors Val Woodruff, Pete Hughes and Ian Shires are concerned about an increase in reports of anti social behaviour in Willenhall North. “By their very nature these sort of issues are not easy to resolve” said Ian Shires. “The Focus Team is working with residents affected by anti social behaviour in conjunction [...]

A great deal of concern is being expressed about the condition of the house next to the M6 on the Lichfield Road reports Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires. Regular readers will remember that the house was gutted in a fire during the winter. Lib Dem Focus Team councillors Val Woodruff, Pete Hughes and Ian Shires have [...]

Support the fight to keep 11-19 education on the Sneyd School site? Then use the link bellow to add your name to the fast growing on-line petition to the Prime Minister. http//petitions.number10.gov.uk/savesneyd  

   The action group to save Sneyd School met yesterday evening to draw up battle lines in the fight to keep 11-19 education on the Sneyd School site. The message  coming out of this meeting was loud and clear, “We ain’t going away, we won’t stop till we’ve achieved our collective goal of keeping Sneyd open to [...]

  Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats yesterday spoke to the British Chambers of Commerce Annual Business Convention in Birmingham. His speech focused on the Liberal Democrats plans for helping businesses during the recession, and his vision of an economy for the future. His plans included the Liberal Democrats ongoing comittment to international trade, [...]

  Commenting on today’s Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) research that reveals pensioners get relatively poorer as they get older, Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Steve Webb said: “Labour’s changes to the pension system will do nothing to prevent pensioners becoming poorer as they get older.”   “Ministers have refused to say when the [...]

  The fight to keep 11-19 education on the Sneyd School Site is far from over reports Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires. An action group set up to fight against closure has been set up and meets today to decide tactics. On Thursday 30th April there is a community meeting at Sneyd. Starting at 7pm [...]

Residents affected by the plans for Four-lane running between J8 and J10a of the M6 are feeling let down by the Highways Agency claim local Lib Dems.  Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires will be contacting the Highways Agency today to remind them that they had agreed at a meeting on the 9th April 2009 that they would [...]

The Liberal Democrats will fight the next general election with a pledge to cut income tax bills by £700 for people on low and middle incomes. The party will promise to raise the income tax personal allowance to £10,000 by closing tax loopholes exploited by big businesses and the wealthy. Measures which will be used [...]