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Welcome to Stroud Liberal Democrats
All the Liberal Democrats policies have a green thread running through them because damage to our environment damages personal health, impoverishes economies and weakens communities.
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Sat 2nd Feb 2008
The Government wants to introduce a new generation of nuclear power stations. It claims that we need to 'keep the lights on' and that nuclear is 'carbon free'. Putting the issue of thousands of years of radioactive waste to one side, the earliest time a reactor could realistically come on line is 2020. Too late to keep the lights on! We need to invest heavily in clean energy sources, such as carbon capture, wind, solar and other renewables. Most energy loss occurs at the point of generation and through transmission. We need to decentralise our grid and encourage conservation in existing, as well as new, buildings.
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Read "Local Lib Dems reject Nuclear Power" in full (145 words).
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Sat 2nd Feb 2008
Work to open up the canal at Wallbridge is due later this year, but no decision has yet been taken regarding which of the schemes for the A46 canal crossing and the remodelling of the Merrywalks roundabout will be implemented.
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Read "Canal meets Bath Road (A46)" in full (87 words).
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Tue 18th Dec 2007
Many of us are wondering if there is another Tesco saga in the making with the lack of activity with the building of Dursley's new Sainsburys Supermarket. There are delays but Dursley will have a brand new environmentally friendly Sainsburys open in 2009.
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Read "Sainsburys comes to Dursley" (43 words).
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Tue 11th Sep 2007
The Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson, has now taken the decision to centralise Gloucestershire's mental health care. Weavers Croft is set to lose its inpatient beds to Charlton Lane in Cheltenham. Weavers Croft will still be used as a centre for providing care to older patients in their own homes. Stroud Liberal Democrats regret the need for such change. Andrew Fisk said 'It's a shame that local facilities have to be transferred. How are patients and carers going to cope with a thirty-mile round trip? This plan is seriously misguided.. If these proposals do go ahead the NHS must do more to help travel arrangements for carers.' Cllr Christine Headley said, 'Our petition proved that feeling in Rodborough ran high against the proposed cuts. It is good that the Maternity Hospital and beds at Stroud Hospital have been saved for the time being, but the loss of beds at Weavers Croft is a disappointment.'
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Read "The fate of Weavers Croft" (156 words).
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Mon 10th Sep 2007
Liberal Democrats in Rodborough have received numerous complaints about litter on Rodborough common. In response to this campaigners Andrew Fisk and Sylvia Bridgland undertook a 'Litter pick." Cans, bottles and fast food packages were amongst the garbage. Chairman of Rodborough Branch Liberal Democrats, Andrew Fisk said "We did the job this time round but really visitors to the common need to be responsible for their own rubbish. Producers of packaging must also share some of the responsibility."
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Read "Local Lib Dems clean up common" (77 words).
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Sat 8th Sep 2007
District Council Planners have now received an outline planning application for 120 houses at Frome-hall Park. The consultation period has now begun. Andrew Fisk will be leading for the Liberal Democrats on this for the moment, as Parish Councillor Christine Headley is Chair of the Parish's Planning and Transportation Committee, said "Rodborough lacks green space areas as it is. Fromehall Park is not the place to build a mass of housing, certainly not at the expense of a sport facility." Cllr Christine Headley said, "Even a hundred houses seemed too many for the site, particularly given the amount of traffic we would expect them to generate so close to a tricky junction."
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Read "120 Houses proposed for Fromehall Park" (112 words).
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Sun 22nd Jul 2007
For the second time in the space of a month freak weather has caused extensive flooding in Gloucestershire. Stroud has been hard hit, with streams, rivers and the Canal all breaking their banks and flooding homes and work places.
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Read "Flooding Hits Stroud" in full (178 words).
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Wed 11th Jul 2007
Over one and a half million people are in need of housing in the UK. The problems of run away house price inflation are well known. There is not enough affordable housing or social housing to cope with the demand. When housing is built, too often it is of the wrong type.
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Read "One Million New Affordable Homes by 2017" in full (224 words).
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"Liberalism in Britain has lost a great champion, the Liberal Democrats, a great advocate and our public life, a great servant. "
Lord Paddy Ashdown
In memory of Lord Richard Holme, who died on 5 May
"If the Tories want to claim that they are going to cut corporation tax, they have to come clean about how they are going to pay for it. Cutting the main rate of corporation tax to 25% will cost more than £5bn a year. If David Cameron is to have a hope of sounding credible he must state clearly where the money will come from. Otherwise this will be seen as yet another unfunded tax cut. "
Vince Cable - Lib Dem Shadow Chancellor
www.libdems.org.uk - 2 May
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