MP calls on business to keep backing apprenticeships
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has urged employers to keep investing in local young people by hiring them as apprentices.
25 Jul 2013
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MP welcomes extra sure start funding
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed the announcement that Cumbria County Council has given the go-ahead to a one-year funding extension for Sure Start centres up to 31 March 2015.
24 Jul 2013
MP urges community to put schemes forward to Post Office business fund
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has called on local residents to suggest projects their local post office could start up to benefit the community, following the announcement of new funding to boost rural communities.
22 Jul 2013
MP backs call for supermarkets to stock more British lamb
Cumbrian MP Tim Farron has backed calls by the National Farmers Union for British supermarkets to make more effort to support British farming by sourcing new season British Lamb
22 Jul 2013
MP welcomes action on night flights over lakes
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed the news that the Ministry of Defence will try and make sure that night flights are curbed. Tim has vowed to keep pushing ministers for further concessions.
19 Jul 2013
MP welcomes funding deal for Kirkbie Kendal School
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has thanked local Liberal Democrat councillors who have secured a funding deal for Kirkbie Kendal school. It is hoped that this funding package will end a long running saga with Cumbria County Council.
19 Jul 2013