After being contacting by many local residents, Morehall Lib Dem Action Team Darren Briddock and Tom McNeice are conducting a residents survey in Morehall Avenue and Chart Road about the regular traffic problems there.
Shepway Liberal Democrats were represented in force at the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference in Harrogate. Folkestone and Hythe Parliamentary Spokesman Toby Philpott and many other local members including Maureen Speller, Paul Kincaid, Tom McNeice, Darren Briddock, Season Prater, Tim Prater and Shaun Roberts all made the journey for the traditional launch to May's election campaign.
Kent Trading Standards have received a number of complaints from motorists alleging that their cars have required repairs as a result of being filled with contaminated petrol.
The Independent reports that the proposed expansion of Lydd Airport is "threatening the oldest reserve under the management of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds". Read the article in full at
On Saturday, Lydd Airport tested the take off and touch down of a 737 aircraft at Lydd Airport to show the impact the plane would have on the local area. Although the plane was not fully loaded, the pictures taken from Dunes Road, at the foot of the runway, show how close the plane would come to local houses. Lydd Airport has offered no compensation to the owners of houses in Dunes Road for its proposed runway extension, despite the threat of 3 planes an hour over their houses.
Kent Trading Standards have advised that a doorstep alarm seller is operating in the Folkestone area this week. He is described as a white male around 38-40 years old, wearing dark or black coloured clothing. He offers to fit alarm systems to properties. He is possibly travelling by foot and carrying a bag.
Lib Dem members in Shepway have been invited to take part in a web forum on Monday 26th February to answer questions on the Federal Policy Committee motion on Trident which will be debated at the Liberal Democrat UK conference in Harrogate.
Members of the public are "taking their lives into their own hands", by accessing the bus station using the most direct route, rather than using the marked crossings, according to local Lib Dem campaigner Gary Fuller.
Local Lib Dem campaigner Gary Fuller has described the ban on cars accessing parts of Sandgate Road at night as a "pointless waste of time" unless fully enforced after watching many cars breaking the rules.
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