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30 Most Recent News Stories
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Mon 8th Mar 2010
Tory Councillor Harry Phibbs is making sure to get his alibis in early, after Hammersmith and Fulham Liberal Democrats highlighted the unfunded tax cuts in the Council's last pre-election budget and warned of the inevitable post-election tax rises.
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Mon 8th Mar 2010
There is indeed much to celebrate of strides that have been made by women, their achievements both within the family as well as in greater society. However there are still areas for much concern.
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Mon 8th Mar 2010
Fulham Liberal Democrats have been undertaking surveys of residents to assess priorities for future spending on roads, and the level of support for a 20mph speed limit.
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Sat 6th Mar 2010
Parents in Hammersmith and Fulham have been left disappointed and frustrated after only about half of the pupils in the borough made it into their preferred secondary school, well below the London average of 65 per cent for first choice admissions.
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Thu 4th Mar 2010
It's official. Liberal Democrats are better at reducing crime than the other parties! In Lib Dem-controlled councils, including most of our biggest cities, crime has fallen by 20 per cent, more than in Tory or Labour areas.
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Sun 28th Feb 2010
Local Liberal Democrats have warned of future sharp increases in Council Tax, as Conservative -controlled H&F Council confirmed that this year's 3% cut will be financed not out of revenue but by drawing £2.8 million from reserves.
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Sun 28th Feb 2010
Local Liberal Democrat's kicked off the new year with a "Survey of Shops", asking retailers around Askew Road how they are faring in the recession. The team, including our Hammersmith Lib Dem candidate in the forthcoming parliamentary election, Merlene Emerson, set out on what turned out as one of the coldest days of the year to speak to shop-keepers.
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Sun 28th Feb 2010
The Tory administration is boasting of how it is reducing Council Taxes by reducing the Council's budget. While we agree Labour left the Council in a mess, Hammersmith and Fulham Liberal Democrats are concerned that many of the co-called "efficiencies" are very real cuts to services.
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Mon 22nd Feb 2010
On the evening of Friday 19 February, Foreign Secretary David Miliband came to Hammersmith at the invitation of Labour MP Andrew Slaughter and held a public meeting at St Paul's Church near the Broadway.
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Tue 16th Feb 2010
Liberal Democrats in the new Constituency of Chelsea and Fulham have chosen green jobs champion Dirk Hazell as Prospective Parliamentary Candidate.
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Wed 3rd Feb 2010
"Prior to the closure of the Shepherds Bush station to allow for the building of Westfield, Europe's largest urban shopping mall at £1.6 billion, local residents were promised a fully accessible station, including a lift, in keeping with TfL efforts to make the underground as user-friendly as possible.
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Wed 3rd Feb 2010
On 2nd February, the Electoral Commission held a Press launch at Queen Anne's Gate to announce the publication of their new bilingual leaflet to encourage voter registration. According to Jenny Watson, Chair of the Electoral Commission, about 30 per cent of British Chinese who are eligible to vote are not registered with their local authority to vote. The equivalent statistic of non registration for the rest of the population is closer to the region of 8-9%.
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Thu 28th Jan 2010
Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Hammersmith and Fulham has accused the local council of attempting to shroud the latest Met Police crime statistics in smoke and mirrors.
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Mon 25th Jan 2010
"In the past, I and the H&F Liberal Democrats have campaigned for improvements to Shepherd's Bush market, better transport links (against closure of Shepherd's Bush Central line station and on bus routes), and for more jobs for local residents in the Westfield development.
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Tue 19th Jan 2010
Paul Burstow, Liberal Democrat MP led a debate in Westminster last week calling on the government to investigate the damage done to local media and local democracy by Council run, taxpayer funded council newspapers which are driving independent local newspapers out of business.
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Mon 18th Jan 2010
The Liberal Democrats have set out plans to bring a quarter of a million empty homes back into use, making homes available for people who need them and creating 65,000 jobs.
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Thu 14th Jan 2010
H&F News headline this week : "Residents Praised for Big Freeze Bravery". Indeed...
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Wed 13th Jan 2010
Liberal Democrat campaigners in Hammersmith and Fulham are challenging the council to to justify the lack of gritting of pavements in the borough, after complaints about the dangers posed to pedestrians.
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Wed 13th Jan 2010
H&F Council's campaign to block Thames Water's super-sewer continues with our councillors writing to colleagues on other councils hoping to persuade them to take the same obstructive approach to the project, even though the tunnel now has the backing of (Tory) Mayor at City Hall.
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Tue 12th Jan 2010
Hammersmith and Fulham Council's Planning Department is apparently going forward on Leader Stephen Greenhalgh's promise last November to learn from the mistakes made in the Goldhawk Industrial Estate planning application (now "called in" by the Minister, but sadly too late to prevent Innocent Drinks finding a new home outside the Borough). .
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Fri 8th Jan 2010
This week David Cameron came to town and warned us to beware of "black propaganda".
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Tue 5th Jan 2010
London Assembly Liberal Democrats have discovered that nearly £ 20 million has been spent by Transport for London on cancelled schemes to improve access at six London stations including West Kensington station.
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Tue 5th Jan 2010
From Nick Clegg's piece in the Times, (Jan 05): "In the event of a hung Parliament, the British people also deserve to know how the Liberal Democrats will respond. We have two basic principles that I will uphold.
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Thu 31st Dec 2009
In a new year message to residents of Hammersmith, Merlene expresses her hopes for 2010:
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Thu 17th Dec 2009
St Augustine is supposed to have prayed "Lord, make me chaste. But not yet". Stephen Greenhalgh obviously prays that he will learn from past mistakes, but not until after his council has satisfied all the developers who are after his favours.
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Wed 16th Dec 2009
The EU Commission has rejected the UK government's request for more time to meet the requirements of European clean air laws in Greater London. High levels of air pollution in the capital breach European air quality standards designed to protect health. Dangerous particles known as 'PM10' emitted from diesel engines and heating systems are a particularly bad problem in London.
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Tue 15th Dec 2009
The Mayor of London has rejected the proposal of a One Hour Bus Ticket despite recent unanimous support for the proposal from the London Assembly.
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Sun 13th Dec 2009
As the British Medical Journal publishes research indicating that 20mph speed limits can nearly halve deaths and serious injuries, Liberal Democrat run Islington Council is about to become the first local authority in London to extend 20 mph speed limits to all non-main roads.
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Sun 13th Dec 2009
The Council has not yet agreed to defer consideration of the Planning Application for 282 - 288 Goldhawk Road, despite receiving a detailed and thorough objection from the Ashchurch Residents Association.
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Fri 11th Dec 2009
Commenting on today's announcement that the European Commission will not permit the UK Government an extension to meet air quality standards for dangerous airborne particulates in Greater London, Mike Tuffrey, leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group and its environment spokesperson, said:
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