Local MP Tim Farron is relaunching his petition for there to be no fewer than 20 officers uniformed police officers covering the South Lakes at any one time after it was revealed that Cumbria had the third biggest increase in reported crime in the country this year.
Commenting on today's remarks from the Transport Secretary that Northern could be nationalised, local MP Tim Farron said: "We've been calling for this since Northern literally gave up running train services here in the South Lakes last summer and we had to find our own replacement service.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has nominated The New Union in Kendal for the prestigious title of Parliamentary Pub of the Year.
Local MP Tim Farron has secured a meeting with transport minister Baroness Vere about rural bus services in Cumbria.
On the floor of the House of Commons this week, ministers agreed to meet with local MP Tim Farron to discuss restoring access to justice in the South Lakes.
On World Mental Health Day, local MP Tim Farron has written to the Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group to ask them to keep their promise of a specialist one-to-one eating disorder service for young people in South Cumbria.
