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.
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
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.
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.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has written to the Secretary of State for Health and asked him to urgently re-think the plan for vascular services in the North West after the hospitals hosting two of the three new 'centres of excellence' were named in the damning Keogh review.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed an announcement by Education Minister Edward Timpson that primary schools in the South Lakes will get an additional £367,400 in funding to encourage and support school sports from September 2013.