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MP re-opens Oxenholme Post office after successful community campaign
Local MP Tim Farron yesterday re-opened Oxenholme Post Office and Stores after a successful community campaign to bring the service back.
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MP slams 'broadband tax' as unfair to South Lakes residents
Tim Farron MP has today slammed the governments plan to charge people with fixed phone lines 50p per month to help fund ultra-fast broadband has been condemned as "unfair".
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Farron calls on the NWDA to reject University Of Cumbria's business plan unless they commit to keeping all students at Ambleside
Local MP Tim Farron has called on the North West Development Agency not to accept the revised University of Cumbria's business plan which contains within it the moving of teaching students from…
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Farron calls on government to lift cap on student places
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has called on Lord Mandelson to scrap the artificial cap that HEFCE, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, has placed on institutions taking students to study at…
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Farron backs moves to bring new students to Ambleside
Local MP Tim Farron has written to government ministers asking them to support plans for an international hotel school at Ambleside camps.
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Comeback planned for successful campaign to boost Lakes visitor numbers
A successful campaign to boost visitor numbers to the Lakes after Foot and Mouth in 2001 is set to be re-launched by local MP Tim Farron and local business leaders.
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Servicemen set to miss out on election warns Farron
Changes to voting rules which would ensure local servicemen and women from South Lakeland serving abroad have the opportunity to vote in the forthcoming General Election are required urgently,…
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Farron celebrates success after Tory-led County Council forced to drop on street parking charges
South Lakes MP Tim Farron is celebrating the news that his campaign to stop the county council charging for on-street parking has been successful.
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Lib Dem climate change chief joins Farron to push case for hydro in lakes
South Lakes MP Tim Farron was joined this weekend by the Liberal Democrats' shadow secretary of state on climate change on a visit to Grasmere Hostel where the proprietor, Bev Dennison, is seeking to…
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Mapping guarantee no good without money says Farron
A guarantee from the Rural Payments Agency that they will return disputed maps to farmers in Cumbria by the end of this month isn't enough to help farmers who are still waiting for their payments…