A public consultation exercise for the Consultation Draft Central Lancashire Highways and Transport Masterplan ran for six weeks from 7 January to 25 February 2013.  The response to the consultation exercise has, on the whole, endorsed the County Council’s preferred option to ‘Improve and extend’ the transport network which accepts that major additional highway infrastructure will be needed […]

The temporary speed limits are proving unsatisfactory east of  the Leagate Hotel where Blackpool Road and Riversway merge so that a faster moving stream joions the slower moving stream during the current works on the canal. Highways are  currently looking at the Traffic Management arrangement for these works with the Police.

Yesterday’s budget delivers Lib Dem policies to help families with the cost of living and invest in the future of our economy, while making responsible choices to deal with the financial problems Labour left us with.  We are delivering the £10k personal allowance from April 2014 – one year earlier than planned. “This is great […]

Stronger Economy:  National Insurance: £2,000 Employment Allowance 95,000 businesses will benefit, with 55,000 of these taken out of employer NICs altogether.  Pubs benefiting from the beer duty cut 6,714  Fairer Society: Income Tax changes People lifted out of Income Tax from April 2014: 286,000 People getting a £700 tax cut compared to 2010: 2.6m Tax […]

LibDem NW MEP, Chris Davies, [pictured] writes: St Helens has been a world centre for glass production for 200 years, and it remains so although Pilkington (now a subsidiary of the Japanese NSG group) employs only a few more than 2,000 people in the town compared to the 20,000 once on its payroll. I visited its […]

Families in Preston are to get greater financial support for childcare thanks to a major new initiative. Liberal Democrat analysis shows that the £1bn boost to help parents with childcare costs could benefit around 5,602 families in the Preston City Council area. The Coalition Government’s scheme will save the typical working family with two children […]

I have had the following information from LCC regarding the Cottam Orbital service, particularly the Sunday service.  Unfortunately the news is not good for those requiring a sunday service: As far as a Sunday service is concerned, the Preston – Cottam Orbit service was terminated at Larches in September 2012 following a decision by Preston […]

I have had many complaints about speeding on Cottam way and the local police are about to take enforcement action

Parents will be able to claim back up to £1,200 a year – or 20% of childcare costs – from 2015, under plans set to be unveiled by the coalition government. Parents will be allowed to claim back 20% out of a total of around £6,000 – what they believe to be the average annual […]

“Having been in face to face negotiations till nearly midnight last night – followed by calls, texts and emails for many hours afterwards – I am delighted to have stood up this afternoon in the House of Commons to welcome the cross-party agreement on implementing the Leveson Report. It wasn’t easy but after a lot […]