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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
Local MP, Tim Farron, visited the site in Grange-over-Sands where construction has begun on reinstating the long awaited Clare Lane Bridge.
Cumbrian MP, Tim Farron, has taken the fight against BBC Radio Cumbria funding cuts to the new Chairman of the BBC Trust.
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…
South Lakes MP, Tim Farron has used a debate in Parliament to step up his campaign for a Grocery Codes Adjudicator to ensure that farmers are paid a fair price for their produce.
South Lakes MP, Tim Farron, has welcomed an additional £26 million for the NHS in Cumbria - which will help improve the likelihood of radiotherapy treatment coming to Kendal. The money will also…
Over 1,500 of the lowest paid workers in South Lakeland will stop paying income tax today thanks to the Liberal Democrats, local MP Tim Farron has revealed.