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After 36 years, a Promise of Help for Bus Services from the Government. Lib Dems just Hope it will actually Do Some Good!

The Conservatives should know a bit about buses. It was, after all, Mrs Thatcher's Transport Act 1985 which accomplished the destruction of nearly all municipal bus companies outside of a small number of metropolitan areas. Barbara Castle's earlier 1968 Transport Act had introduced the concept of public support for socially important but uncommercial services and this principle was retained. However, the deregulation that was a key element in the Thatcher act, led to a focus on profitable routes, destructive competition between companies and a lack of co-ordination or continuity of services.

Waste Mix-Ups Cause Chaos and Cost for Councils as Rogue Plastics Contaminate Materials for Recycling

A report in Local Government First reveals that in 2019/20 more than half a million tonnes of household waste collected for recycling could not be sorted and had to be rejected. This is because non-recyclable material had been placed in the wheely bins.

"Herts Council Council's Inadequate Road Maintenance is a False Economy", say Liberal Democrats

Inadequate road maintenance is a false economy.

"There are plenty more fish in the sea!" - alas, not always true in most places anymore.

Sadly, for many species this is old saying is no longer true. In some places cod can be fished sustainably, for example off Iceland, in the Baltic Sea, in the Atlantic off Newfoundland at the Flemish Cap fishing ground.

Lib Dem Sam North Improves his Party's Position in the Hertfordshire Police & Crime Commissioner Elections