Local MP, Tim Farron has today tabled a parliamentary motion supporting the decision of the BBC Trust to provisionally approve a 'Freesat' service. Freesat will enable those who have difficulty receiving a digital freeview signal to get the free channels available through digital television.
Tim Farron, MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale has today written to the Prime Minister, formally urging him to consider initiating a public inquiry into the Cumbria train crash, after it emerged in the interim report that the cause of the accident was the same as that at Potters Bar.
Local MP, Tim Farron today chaired a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hill Farming which was addressed by Derek Morgan of the Farmers Union of Wales. The meeting was an opportunity to discuss many of the issues faced by uplands farmers in Wales, in addition to issues which effect farmers in other regions of the UK.
Tim Farron has welcomed the encouraging statements made by the Chair and Chief Executive of Cumbria's PCT at last night's 'Great Health Debate' held at the Riverside Hotel in Kendal.
Following the Government's announcement today of plans to increase the number of people able to buy their council houses, local MP Tim Farron has given a guarded reaction. The Department of Communities and Local Government propose to allow people to buy as little as 10% of the value of their home to acquire the 'right to own' the property.
Local residents in Garsdale are getting a raw deal when it comes to broadband, despite large sums of money which have been poured into the county since the foot and mouth epidemic.
