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South Lakes MP backs Votes at 16 campaign
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today backed calls for lowering the voting age to 16.
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‘Save our buses’ campaign steps up fight for Sedbergh, Dent and Hincaster services
Following the successful local Liberal Democrat campaign to save bus services to Levens, Sedgwick and Natland South Lakeland MP, Tim Farron is hoping to build on the momentum of the campaign to…
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Farron steps up fight to protect BBC Radio Cumbria
Cumbrian MP, Tim Farron, is to meet with journalists for BBC Radio Cumbria on Wednesday 27th April in an attempt to protect BBC local radio from cuts to services.
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Chernobyl 25 years on – farmers still paying the price
Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, farmers in the South Lakes are still paying the price after radiation rained down on their farms in the wake of the catastrophe.
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MP celebrates success in bus campaign
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has praised Liberal Democrat campaigners, and local bus company Stagecoach for stepping in to provide bus services to Levens, Sedgwick and Natland after cuts by the…
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MP launches ‘Save our Library’ campaign
Local MP Tim Farron has today launched a save our libraries campaign in a bid to save 18 libraries from the axe. A petition has been launched asking local people throughout the South Lakes to join…
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Farron delighted as Government inquiry rules in favour of ‘save the cheque’ campaign
South Lakes MP Tim Farron is delighted at a huge win for his 'save the cheque' campaign as the Treasury Select Committee inquiry has supported proposals to rethink the decision to abolish the cheque.
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Farron leads celebrations as construction starts on new Grange footbridge
Local MP, Tim Farron, visited the site in Grange-over-Sands where construction has begun on reinstating the long awaited Clare Lane Bridge.
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Farron continues fight for BBC Radio Cumbria!
Cumbrian MP, Tim Farron, has taken the fight against BBC Radio Cumbria funding cuts to the new Chairman of the BBC Trust.
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Farron demands Cumbria stops teaching assistant pay cut as new figures put county council on defensive
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today demanded that Cumbria County Council call a halt to their pay cuts for teaching assistants after it was revealed that no other shire county council was making such…
