In an Open Letter to the Conservative Police & Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire, Liberal Democrat Sally Symington has sharply criticised his ambition to heap his own brand of DIY punishment onto criminals who have already been dealt with in the courts. She wrote,
Sammy Barry has been selected to stand for the Liberal Democrats as their candidate for the Hemel Hempstead Division in the Hertfordshire County Council Elections to be held on 4th May, 2017.
Beggars Lane near Tring Station is having to be closed for a series of works to enhance safety for motorists, cyclists and people using the Ridgeway Path or fishing or walking along the canal.
In an unusual Parliamentary by-election where the sitting Tory MP resigned to fight as an independent, where the Tories (wisely) did not dare to stand against their rebel, where UKIP failed to stand at all but the man who bankrolls them supported the maverick ex-Tory candidate, where the Labour Party was eclipsed and lost its deposit, where the Greens strategically supported the Liberal Democrats, the result was a classic barnstorming victory for the Liberal Democrats. The newly elected Liberal Democrat MP, Sarah Olney said in the early hours of this morning, "A year and a half ago I wasn't involved in politics, I wasn't a member of a political party, I had never been involved in a political campaign, I had never thought about being a politician....But I knew I was a liberal.
If there's one thing that all 77 of Hertfordshire's county councillors all agree on, it's this - that they spend to much time coping with highway problems.
He rtfordshire Liberal Democrat county councillors have challenged the Conservative administration at County Hall about its repeated failings over highways gulley cleansing.