IT MAY NOT be Torquay, but it’s certainly a farce! MOST RESIDENTS in the Lift Tower Estate know that a planning application is underway for abseiling events at the Lift Tower to be permanently increased to 26 a year. The public consultation was due to finish 21 days after 12 March. The planning application was due […]

“I’m getting very worried about Northampton at the moment” writes County Councillor Richard Church. It’s not that it doesn’t have much going for it, because it does. It’s got a strong work force, it’s located fantastically, it’s got beautiful architecture, a proud history, art galleries, theatres, shops, restaurants, and residents that want to thrive, and […]

Cllr Richard Church has slammed the Tories failure over the Grosvenor Centre in a letter to the local press. Richard writes: “I am delighted to see that Conservative Council leader David Mackintosh says he will do anything to save the Grosvenor Centre redevelopment. I just hope he actually means it. A year ago, the incoming […]

ONE of the regular comments I have encountered on the doorstep as I’ve campaigned in West Hunsbury has been that Northampton town centre is dirty. I’m regularly in Abington Street at 8am and I can absolutely promise you that at that time the street is perfectly clean. Then the people come and they drop litter, […]

ONE of my fellow-Lib Dem candidates in South Northants is being given a very hard time in the press, because she is an artist, and has published some of her photographs on an ‘Adult’ website.

During an election campaign there is always a bit of political knockabout. That’s accepted. Sticks and stones etc. But I draw the line at outright lies.

The Conservatives complain that the current Lib Dem-controlled council has increased councillor allowances in the last four years in charge of the Guildhall. Yes! – that’s true, based on the recommendation of an independent panel. But Borough Councillors, who have just delivered a balanced budget, with no cuts to frontline services, and only a handful […]

THE CONSERVATIVES claim we are anti-Saints. CLICK HERE to read Jill Hope’s open letter

Read who’s claiming credit for Northampton LibDem Borough Council’s hard work!

HERE IS NEWS of yet another Conservative cut that will affect local bin collections.