Just a quick reminder, as this is a five week month there will be no Councillor’s Surgery in Willenhall North Ward tonight. The next Friday night surgery will be at “The Lighthouse Children’s Centre” in Davis Road, New Invention 7pm -8pm Friday 6th November. There is a Councillor’s Surgery at New Invention Library, The Square, Lichfield [...]

The YamYam 30 Oct 2009  Express & Star 30 Oct 09  http://bit.ly/RfaCW  It has been seven years in the making, but news of a £8.5 million injection for Walsall Waterfront has signalled the start of the long-awaited scheme. At the much-trumpeted announcement of the project in 2002, regeneration chiefs had no idea the recession was [...]

  “Longer franchises will get money into the industry by giving companies an incentive to invest in real, long-term improvements,” said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary. Commenting on today’s report by the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) on franchise reform, Norman Baker said: “Train passengers have been getting a raw deal from the [...]

“The return to growth in the US is in stark contrast to the UK and is clear evidence that the billions poured into a meaningless VAT cut has failed,” said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor. Commenting on the news that the US is officially out of recession, Vince Cable said: “The UK is now one [...]

The YamYam Business news 29 Oct 2009  Paul Dale B’ham Post 29 Oct 09 Any faint hope that the West Midlands might somehow miraculously avoid the worst of the recession has been dashed by authoritative research showing that this region continues to bear the brunt of the country’s economic misery http://bit.ly/3e72dI

“Businesses need real action now and are fed up with Labour’s empty promises and meaningless rhetoric,” said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Business Secretary. Commenting on today’s Bank of England report which reveals a 40% year-on-year fall in bank lending to the manufacturing sector in the last quarter, John Thurso said: “Today’s appalling lending figures will [...]

“The best way to reduce the harm drugs cause to society is to base policy on facts,” said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary. Commenting on today’s comments by the Government’s chief drugs adviser, Professor David Nutt, that ministers ‘devalued’ scientific evidence when considering the classification of cannabis, Chris Huhne said:   “Professor Nutt is [...]

“These figures are a symptom of Labour’s failure and its legacy of too many poorly performing schools which parents are desperate to avoid,” said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Schools Secretary. Commenting on today’s school appeals figures, David Laws said: “In the last five years, hundreds of thousands of parents have been left disappointed because their [...]

   A longstanding campaign to improve the quality of bus travel in the Willenhall area is beginning to pay dividends reports Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Shires. Willenhall Local Neighbourhood Partnership (LNP) had a series of meetings with representatives from Centro (the Transport Executive across the West Midlands) following complaints from regular bus users about the quality [...]

  Research by the Liberal Democrats has found that since 1999 nearly 490,000 parents have been unhappy about the school their child has been placed in and have lodged an appeal, with only a third of these being successful. More than half a million parents have appealed against their child’s allocated school, figures out today [...]