Speaking on the floor of the House of Commons yesterday evening, local MP Tim Farron proposed a ground breaking initiative that would boost farm incomes and help the battle against climate change.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron's motion calling on the government to step in and pay dairy farmers who were members of Dairy Farmers of Britain (DFB) their May milk cheques has won cross party support.
Local MP and vice chair of the All Party Group on Dementia, Tim Farron, has today launched a report alongside the rest of the group which calls for an ambitious shake up in care for people with dementia.
South Lakeland MP Tim Farron yesterday joined local supporters of Age Concern and Help the Aged in a mass lobby of Parliament as part of their week of action to promote the need for quality care for older people. Jenny Launder of South Lakes Age Concern led a team of five people from our area to attend the lobby.
Earlier this week the Liberal Democrats topped the poll in South Lakeland in the European Parliamentary election for the first time in history. The votes in the election were counted and declared district by district. In South Lakeland, the Liberal Democrats won 15,447 votes, which is twice the number of votes they received at the last European elections in 2004. This was the first time that the Liberal Democrats had ever come first in a European poll in South Lakeland - in 2004 the Conservatives had topped the poll by more than 7,000 votes, but have now been pegged back to a poor second.
A Lake District MP has called upon English Heritage to save 'Uncle Monty's Cottage' - the setting for the cult comedy film 'Withnail and I' after an original bid to save the cottage fell through.
