Tag Archives: Winchester District

Come and join Shirley Williams at our Annual Dinner

Shirley Williams will be our guest of honour at our dinner on March 23rd at the Holiday Inn on Morn Hill, just outside Winchester next to Intech. Tickets cost £30 for members and £35 for non-members. Lifts to the Holiday …

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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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Continuing to work for a greener, fairer, safer Winchester

You may have seen reports on BBC South Today that two Winchester City Councillors have defected to the Conservatives. This is untrue and we don’t know where the BBC picked that up from. What has happened is that Councillor Alexis …

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Barton Farm: Lib Dem Council fights application

Lib Dem councillor, Phryn Dickens, discusses the campaign to stop Barton Farm with Lib Dem MEP for the South East, Sharon Bowles In a June meeting, the Planning Committee of Liberal Democrat controlled Winchester City Council rejected Cala Homes’ plans …

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Lib Dems call for action as Winchester unemployment hits a new high, especially among the under 25s

Unemployment in the Winchester hit a new high in August 2009 at 1,305, up 107 since July. This is more than twice the level a year ago (606) and the biggest increase in a single month since February The biggest …

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Winchester-based Equitable Life policy holders ask for support

Current and former Equitable Life members have been contacting Mark Oaten MP and local parliamentary candidate Martin Tod asking for their support for compensation following the EU and Parliamentary Ombudsman’s recommendations that the regulatory authorities were appallingly negligent over many …

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Park Road allotments mark National Allotment Week

Brian Botwright and Martin Tod in Brian’s organic allotment at Park Road Liberal Democrat Parliamentary campaigner, Martin Tod, joined allotment holders in Park Road last Saturday to mark National Allotment week. Exhibits at the open afternoon in north Winchester included …

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‘Curb lenders, cut repossessions’ says Martin Tod

Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Campaigner, Martin Tod, has expressed alarm at the rapid increase in mortgage repossession claims at Winchester Crown Court The Ministry of Justice published figures on August 15, 2008 showing that the number of mortgage possession claims between …

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Lib Dem goes gardening to back National Allotment Week

Martin Tod working with Twyford allotment holder, Steve Harris Liberal Democrat campaigner, Martin Tod, has backed National Allotment Week (August 11-18) by getting stuck in helping to weed an allotment in Twyford. He will also be attending Winchester’s Park Road …

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