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Looking ahead, respecting the past, ready to get the job done - Liberal Democrats Launch Manifesto |
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"We get things done, and Bath and North East Somerset needs plenty to be done", said Paul Crossley, launching the Liberal Democrat manifesto for the local elections in May.
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Astonishing ...
Liberal Democrats were astonished to read in a recent Tory communication to residents that Lib Dems support Labour proposals "to raise average council tax locally by 1% of house prices or £1325 per year". Where do the Tories get this strange idea?
Lib Dems have for years argued for a Council Tax based on ability to pay rather than the value of your house. Such a scheme would lead to a redistribution, but not an overall increase, of Council Tax.
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Kerbside collections now a success |
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There was much confusion and some protest when people first heard that rubbish was no longer to be collected from their back door but from the "edge of property", ie the roadside. This has settled in well now - with all the necessary special arrangements in place and missed collections at an all-time low. "It has made many people rethink their recycling - so that landfill rubbish has actually decreased and greenbox content gone up", says Bathavon South Cllr Gitte Dawson. "But I ask people to put their bins by the roadside, rather than plastic bags - they can be so unsightly and get broken."
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Midsomer Norton Environment Firm leads the way on chip fat diesel |
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Midsomer Norton Environment Firm leads the way on chip fat diesel
Energy Champion and Bath &NE Somerset Councillor Gail Coleshill was recently invited to visit the go-ahead company BioSulis on the Westfield business estate. BioSulis have a full scale operation to recycle and refine cooking oil used in restaurants and chip shops.
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Home Energy
Residents in Peasedown St John have been investigating the how to improve energy efficiency and use renewable energy installations in their homes. They have discovered that it is not easy. There are a mountain of rules and regulations, a plethora of businesses willing to provide it, planning guidelines to work out and no easy way.
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Lib Dems join BEBO revolution |
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Lib Dems join BEBO revolution
Liberal Democrats in North East Somerset have joined the online craze that is ‘BEBO’.
Launched in 1991, BEBO has several million members worldwide. For young people and teenagers it’s the ‘must have’ with 1 in 3 of them having their own BEBO page.
The website is designed to be a social networking tool where people can keep in touch, chat, watch videos and listen to music.
The Lib Dem page was set up the new Lib Dem Youth Officer for the area, Radstock resident Hannah Davis.
Nathan Hartley and Hannah Davis
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