http://www.ebneld.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Eastbourne and Willingdon Liberal Democrats en-GB Eastbourne and Willingdon Liberal Democrats http://www.ebneld.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Eastbourne and Willingdon Liberal Democrats 2010-03-11T06:32+00:00 United Kingdom http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000209/county_hall_makes_decsion_on_roselands__stafford_school_merger.html On Tuesday 16th March, East Sussex County Council published a report on the public consultation of a proposed merger between Rosemands and Stafford School in Eastbourne. The report by the Director of Children's Services rejected the proposal to close the two schools and open a new primary school, but instead supported a proposal to establish a formal partnership of collaboration between the two schools. 2010-03-10T20:29+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000208/county_council_fails_to_support_local_boy.html The parents of a young boy with learning disabilities have been forced to educate their son at home because of a lack of support from East Sussex County Council. Hampden Park resident, Mrs Godden, says that her son Lee, who had been attending Causeway School, is having to be home-educated because the county education department refuse to assist them in paying for travel expenses to his school. 2010-03-02T20:44+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000207/dgh_staff_parking_charges_to_increase_by_100_in_march.html Staff at DGH have recently been informed that their parking charges are to go up from the 1st of March by 100%,from 50p to £1.00. 2010-02-27T01:00+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000205/local_butcher_win_sussex_food_and_drink_award_2010.html There are no post holiday blues for Bob the Butcher. He came home to find that Meads Village Butchers have picked up the coveted 'Sussex Food and Drink Award 2010'. 2010-02-26T01:00+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000206/a_continuing_risk_to_patients_says_general_medical_council.html Eastbourne resident, Mrs Gillian Mackenzie, comments on the GMC's recent ruling that Dr Jane Barton has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct while patients were in her care at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital. 2010-02-26T01:00+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000204/parking_charges_review_an_expensive_farce.html Eastbourne residents have reacted with anger at the County Council's latest 'parking charges' fiasco. 2010-02-25T18:07+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000203/former_conservative_mp_backs_stephen_lloyd.html Former Conservative MP and Meads resident Mr Ernle Money CBE, has publicly announced that he will be supporting Stephen Lloyd to be the next MP for Eastbourne & Willingdon. 2010-01-22T16:58+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000202/estimated_3000_eastbourne_pensioners_missing_out_on_cold_weather_payments.html Over 3,000 Eastbourne pensioners will miss out on Cold Weather Payments triggered by the recent weather, according to analysis of Government figures by the Liberal Democrats. 2010-01-16T00:40+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000201/lib_dems_act_to_tackle_train_overcrowding.html Relief is in sight for hard-pressed Eastbourne commuters following heavy pressure on Southern from local Lib Dems. The town's parliamentary spokesman, Stephen Lloyd, has been in a series of meetings with next door Lewes MP Norman Baker, the party's Shadow Transport Secretary, to ensure Eastbourne's voice is heard where it matters - at the top of the Department for Transport and the top of Southern. 2010-01-16T00:37+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000200/health__safety__taking_a_stand.html Every Christmas Day for many years the Eastbourne Silver Band has played a free concert at the Bandstand. This year was no exception and the traditional event was packed with revellers. A regular highlight, for many years, has been for local children to be invited onto the stage to sing Away in a Manger. As the children lined up with their parents by the side of the stage the Bandmaster announced that, due to Health and Safety, the children were not going to be allowed up to sing. 2010-01-04T22:38+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000199/liberal_democratic_party_leader_nick_clegg_takes_time_out_to_raise_funds_for_thank_the_forces_charity.html On Wednesday the 2nd December 2009 Liberal Democratic Party leader Nick Clegg visited Eastbourne and took time out of his busy schedule to show his support for a local Charity called Thank The Forces. 2009-12-16T20:13+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000197/nick_clegg_town_hall_meeting.html Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg MP will be visiting Eastbourne on Thursday 3rd for the latest in his series of nationwide Town Hall meetings. 2009-12-03T13:58+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000198/pensioner_ready_to_go_to_court_against_east_sussex_county_council.html Mrs Lee from The Rising in Langney is not backing down in her fight against East Sussex County Council who are threatening to take her to Court. County Hall claim Mrs Lee owes them £225 from the home-care services she has been receiving. Her and her son Barry Lee have been very dissatisfied with the level of care Social Services has been providing for a number of years. 2009-11-14T13:16+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000196/eastbourne_womans_case_taken_to_westminster.html Mrs Gillian Mackenzie of Kings Drive, Eastbourne, presented her case of alleged medical malpractice to Lib Dem Shadow Secretary of State for Health Norman Lamb MP, at Parliament this week. The meeting was organised by Stephen Lloyd to enable Mrs Mackenzie, other victims families affected and their lawyer John White to put their case to Mr Lamb, the reasons why they believe things had gone badly wrong in the past at Gosport Memorial Hospital. 2009-11-09T00:00+00:00 http://www.ebneld.org.uk/news/000210/pct_quizzed_on_respite_care_money.html In 2008 the government announced it was doubling the amount of money to fund rest periods for long-term carers, £50m was to be spent in 2010 and £100m next year. Two charities, the Princess Royal Trust for Carers and the Crossroads Care Charity, have recently analysed FOI (freedom of information) requests from 100 PCTs and claim only 23% of this years money has been used to increase services for carers. 2010-03-11T00:00+00:00