Farron backs National Citizen Service scheme in Westmorland
A summer project called the National Citizen Service (NCS) for 16 year olds in the South Lakes is being backed by local MP Tim Farron.
A summer project called the National Citizen Service (NCS) for 16 year olds in the South Lakes is being backed by local MP Tim Farron.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron is calling on local residents to help join the campaign to save BBC Radio Cumbria.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury calling for assurances to be given to staff at the Northern Rock branch on Stricklandgate in Kendal.
Local MP Tim Farron is calling on the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority to listen to the government's advice and agree that 72 Main Street in Sedbergh should be sold to a community trust to save the building.
On Wednesday ITV Border will come to film Burton Memorial Hall as they bid to win £60,000 as part of the People's Millions. South Lakes MP Tim Farron is urging local people to back their campaign.
Local MP Tim Farron has welcomed news that the UK will be officially reclassified as bluetongue free from 5 July 2011, after two years without a case of the disease. The announcement means that restrictions on exporting sheep and cattle from the UK will be lifted. This follows on from the European Union formally agreeing that the UK has not had a case of Bluetongue in over two years.