Category Archives: Campaigns

Liberal Democrats welcome news of M3/A34 junction improvements

Liberal Democrats have welcomed the news that £400,000 is to be spent improving the A34/M3 Jn 9 junction in Winnall. The Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin announced the investment on October 8. The money will be spent reducing …

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Thank you for supporting our campaign against the NHS Bill

Thank you to the many people who supported our NHS campaign: The  people who signed the petition The 204 conference representatives’ signatures who backed our emergency motion. The 9 local parties that backed the motion: Shrewsbury and Atcham Liberal Democrats, …

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Thank you for your support – now we’re off to Conference!

Thank you to everyone who has supported our campaign so far. So far we have more than  signatures on the petition and  conference representatives’ signatures on the emergency motion. In addition, our emergency motion was backed by the following local …

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NHS Bill Emergency Motion goes live

Our emergency motion against the NHS Bill has now gone live. If you are a Liberal Democrat Conference Representative, please sign up!

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Campaign against the NHS Bill – national coverage

The Lib Dems against the NHS Bill campaign is starting to get national coverage. Thank you to the more than Lib Dems who have backed our campaign. Local party member, Martin Tod, has featured on the BBC Westminster Hour and the BBC …

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Thank you to the Lib Dems backing our NHS campaign

Thank you to the more than Lib Dems who have backed our campaign to get the party’s leadership to withdraw support for Andrew Lansley’s NHS Bill. If you are a Liberal Democrat member and would like to support the campaign, …

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Town Forum to Support more Night Buses

At the Winchester Town Forum on Wednesday evening, councillors made a significant move towards bringing back a night bus service to Winchester.  They have set aside £10,000 to subsidise an evening bus service in Winchester for Thursday, Friday and Saturday …

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Winchester Better Bus Campaign

Winchester Councillors and local campaigners are leading calls for improved bus services across the City and out to local villages.  They recognise changes are necessary and want to find out more about what residents need and improvements that would attract …

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67 bus service- the up to date news

Despite my pleas to Stagecoach and the County Council, the current plan is still to amalgamate the 64 and 67 to make one service,the 67, from Winchester to Petersfield, via Alresford. It will make the  journey from Winchester to Petersfield five times a day, and from Alresford to Petersfield twice a day, there will be four buses [...]

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Winchester Lib Dems share public’s outrage at cuts to bus services

Winchester’s Liberal Democrats have condemned the cuts to the District’s bus service proposed by the Conservative-led County Council. City Council group leader Kelsie Learney commented, “With the last bus out of Winchester at 9.30pm and most services finishing much earlier …

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