Shepway Liberal Democrats

The independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England is asking people across Shepway district to comment on its draft proposals for new council ward boundaries.

A twelve-week public consultation on the recommendations begins today and will end on 9 September 2013. The consultation is open to anyone who wants to have their say on new council wards, ward boundaries and ward names across the district.

If you have a difficult policy, give it a name you can't disagree with. That seems to be the Kent County Council approach to streetlighting. Faced by trying to make savings (and reduce the number of lights they have to maintain) they have come up with a two stage policy of first turning off a lot of streetlights, and then secondly switching many more to part-time working so they would be turned off at midnight (or thereabouts) until pretty much dawn.

We're campaigning earlier and stronger than ever in the run up to the European elections in 2014. With the rise of UKIP and the lack of clarity from the other major Parties on the 'Europe question' we need to be leading the debate and the campaigning.

That's why, if you haven't already done so, we need you to sign up at http://bit.ly/11v3s3V

On Saturday 11th May 2013 PCSO Mark Ball hosted a Residents Meeting at All Souls Church Hall. Residents as well as local Councillors attended in order to discuss the issue of Anti-social behaviour surrounding Cheriton Park. Several key action points were established.

On Monday 13th May PCSO Mark Ball attended a Road Traffic Collision (RTC) on the A20 involving two vehicles. Appropriate road closure signage was implemented and traffic management put in place. No persons were injured.

Kent Police and the local PCSO team have arranged a Cheriton Residents Meeting to held this coming Saturday (15 June) at Cheriton Library on Cheriton High Street which will start at 11am.

This meeting was set up as a result of the high volume of Anti-social behaviour coming from Cheriton Rec into Chilham Road, where criminal damage was being conducted to residential property, and has now been opened up to all Cheriton residents.

NO2ID have welcomed the news that Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has vetoed the snooper's charter resulting in it being dropped from the Queen's speech. The coalition government promised to "end the storage of internet and email records without good reason" and the Communications Data Bill was opposed from many members of parliament from all political parties.

Kent Trading Standards are warning mobile phone users about cheap but potentially dangerous phone chargers on sale in the county.

The chargers were found on sale in Thanet, but there are suspicions that the source of the supply is likely to be targeting shops, market stalls and possibly boot-fairs in other districts.

Lynne Beaumont has joined the campaign to open up the Reserves to retired Gurkhas, so they can lead the way in making the future Reserve forces more skilled and stronger than ever.

The MoD plans to fully integrate 30,000 fully-trained Reserves into the Regular Army by 2020, but Lynne believes we need to do more to achieve this. As Nepalese citizens, the well-respected Gurkhas do not currently have a Reserve liability, unlike other soldiers.