Shadow Secretary of State for DEFRA Tim Farron MP today asked the Department to do more to protect rural communities by calling on the Government to expand the rural post office network.
"Like many others, I spent the early hours of the morning eagerly waiting the news that we had all been hoping for. The news, that America now has its first black President.
Local MP, Tim Farron has welcomed confirmation from the Cumbria PCT that a new NHS dentistry will be established in the New Year; but has asked for assurances that patients forced to go private after the Captain French practice's decision to turn private would be guaranteed a place under the new NHS service.
Shadow Secretary of State for DEFRA was Tim Farron was on hand today to welcome members of the British Beekeepers' Association who gathered in Parliament to deliver their petition to 10 Downing Street demanding an increase in the amount of funding for research on bee health.
Local MP Tim Farron and Dick Smith from the Lakes Lone Rail Users' Group (LLRUG) met yesterday with the Chief Executive of Virgin train , Tony Collins, to discuss rail issues facing residents of south Lakeland.
Following the announcement of a joint DEFRA-industry group to investigate the spread of bovine TB, Shadow Secretary of State for DEFRA Tim Farron MP has called for an immediate progress report on the development of a vaccine.