ALL 45 SEATS on Northampton Borough Council are up for election on Thursday 5 May. The Liberal Democrats are fighting all 45 seats, as are the Conservatives, but Labour have failed to put up candidates for 14 of the 45 seats. There are no Labour candidates in 9 of the Borough wards. There are no […]

ON 31 MARCH many of the regular users of the Camp Hill Community Centre attended a meeting with the management committee to discuss the future of the Centre. The regular users – like karate, WI, The Hills Community Association, Scouts, Slimming World – were concerned because the management committee had all announced that they would […]

THE LIB DEMS won control of the Council for the first time in May 2007. It’s the first time the Liberal Party were in power here since the 1920s. On 5 May this year, we proudly defend our four-year record. Before 2007, the Council was run by a disastrous Conservative administration and, for 12 years […]

FOUR YEARS AGO, faced with one of the worst performing local authorities in the country, Northampton’s voters turned to the Liberal Democrats to pull the council from the brink of government intervention and put the pride back in our town. Today, the Borough Council is in good financial shape. Local services are improving and the council is punching above its […]

THE LIB DEMS won control of the Council for the first time in May 2007. Before 2007, the Council was run by a minority Conservative administration. For 12 years before that by Labour. The Conservatives left the Council in administrative and financial chaos. It had been rated poor by the Audit Commission in successive reports in 2004 […]

THE LIB-DEM Group on Northampton Borough Council were runners up in the “Council Group of the Year” award, receiving a Highly Commended award from the LibDem group of the Local Government Association (LGA). The award was presented to Cllr Brian Hoare, Leader of Northampton Borough Council and Cllr Brendan Glynane, Leader of the LibDem Group […]