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…
Local MP Tim Farron has written to government ministers asking them to support plans for an international hotel school at Ambleside camps.
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.
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,…
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.
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…
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…
In the month that the UK finally emerged from recession, South Lakeland MP has accused the Government of overlooking one of Cumbria's most important industries - agriculture.
Plans to reduce the number of police officers in Cumbria by 30 have led South Lakes MP Tim Farron to warn that the county's community policing strategy is at risk.
Thousands of people in South Lakeland could pay less for their water bills after the Government accepted proposals put forward by the Liberal Democrats for new 'social tariffs'. Elderly people and…
