Tewkesbury constituency covers most of Tewkesbury Borough (except the area west of the Severn) and parts of Cheltenham Borough and Gloucester City.
Essentially the main centres are Tewkesbury town, Ashchurch and Northway, Bishops Cleeve, Winchcombe, Churchdown, Brockworth, Prestbury and Swindon Village and Longlevens.
'There are now, after the May 2011 elections, 13 Liberal Democrat Councillors at Borough level (11 on Tewkesbury Borough and 2 on Cheltenham Borough). Wards represented by Liberal Democrats cover Brockworth, Bishop's Cleeve, Churchdown, Innsworth, Down Hatherley and Swindon Village. We also have 3 County Councillors who cover areas wholly within the Constituency: 1 in Bishop's Cleeve, 1 in Brockworth and Hucclecote and 1 in Churchdown St Johns, Innsworth and Down Hatherley as well as 3 County Councillors who cover Swindon Village within the Constituency as well as areas within Cheltenham Constituency
There are no Labour councillors at District or County level within the Constituency, and the Liberal Democrats continue to provide the main opposition to the Conservatives in the area; indeed in the local elections of 2011 we scored over 30% of the vote in the contested seats.
The LIBERAL DEMOCRAT group has lodged a legal challenge called a 'call-in' under Gloucestershire County Council's constitution after the Tory cabinet approved plans for a new library strategy.
The 'call-in' will halt the strategy from coming into force until councillors on the Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee can meet to review the grounds that have been put forward.
The Coalition Government has announced that Gloucestershire will get an additional £2million this year to relieve the pressure on school places.
This is part of an additional £600m of capital spending in England this year, which is for investment in, for example, extra classrooms. This comes on top of the £800m to address the shortage in pupil places already announced for 2012-13.
Alistair Cameron, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesman for Tewkesbury Constituency has written to Jan Stubbings, Chief Executive of NHS Gloucestershire to express concern about the possible closure of Seven Posts Surgery in Prestbury due to its potential relocation to the Greyholme Site in Bishops Cleeve.
LIBERAL Democrats on Gloucestershire County Council yesterday received unanimous cross-party support at Shire Hall.
A motion submitted by the Liberal Democrats and debated by full council praised the hard work of staff employed at Gloucestershire's children centres.
Liberal Democrats also called on the Cabinet to ensure that any changes to the future operation and management of children's centres follow robust processes.
The Liberal Democrats manifesto commitment to increase the income tax threshold to £10,000 took a step closer today when the Chancellor George Osbourne delivered his third Budget.
Commenting on the Budget and in particular the personal tax threshold, Liberal Democrat Leader Cllr. Jeremy Hilton said:
Over 20 million working people will be better off next year after Liberal Democrats in the Coalition Government delivered the biggest ever increase in the income tax personal allowance in the Budget.
The massive £3.5bn tax cut for working people delivers:
The biggest ever single uplift in the tax threshold
A personal allowance of £9,205 in April 2013
21 million working people getting an extra £220 tax cut
Brings the total tax cut for basic rate tax payers to £550
Brings the total number of people lifted out of tax to 2 million.
Following the detection of Schmallenberg Virus (SBV) in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, South Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, Lib Dem MEP for the Westcountry Sir Graham Watson has called for better coordination among European states to tackle the threat.
The virus, first detected last autumn inGermanyand The Netherlands before making its way across the channel earlier this year, has now been identified in the South West too. MEPs in the European Parliament on Thursday asked the European Commission to confirm exactly how it plans to ensure EU coordination to tackle the problem.
Alistair Cameron, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesman for Tewkesbury has expressed concern at reports that the Ministry of Defence are making plans to submit an outline planning application to develop the Ashchurch Army Depot site.
Last June, Alistair wrote to the then Secretary of State for Defence, Dr Liam Fox urging him not to close the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency (DSDA) at Ashchurch.
Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg used his speech to the Party's Spring conference in NewcastleGateshead to call for the forthcoming budget to be a "budget for fairness" and pledged that it would help working familes.
The Deputy Prime Minister pledged that by 2015 Britain would have seen an end to control orders, the first gay marriages and the first elections to the House of Lords.
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