Mayors Election Pledge on Council Tax Questioned
Following Wednesday nights Full Council meeting Lib Dems are calling for the Mayor to explain why he is already failing key election pledges.
10 Nov 2002
Councillor Caroline Courtney and Joshua Hanley are part of the Liberal Democrat team for Tuffley.
Caroline, who lives on Stroud Road near to St Barnabas Church, was first elected to the city council in May 2021. She is the cabinet member for culture and leisure.
Joshua Hanley grew up in Tuffley, went to local schools and is now raising his family here.
He is a sports coach and has helped run local football teams.
If you have any issues you would like Caroline or Joshua to take up on your behalf you can get in touch with them by email at tuffleyliberaldemocrats@gmail.com
You can also follow Caroline on Facebook at fb.me/Caroline4Tuffley/
A burning issue: energy from waste
Our party entered the last general election with a short-term fix on the question of energy from waste (EfW). We cannot go into the next general election still saying that we need to do more research when evidence is there. The truth is, we are divided. There are those who see this as a good local NIMBY campaign and there are those who see incineration simply as a matter of waste policy. But some of us see this technology as part of a sustainable resource policy.
MH
1 Nov 2002
The car conundrum
The car is the bete noire of many environmentalists. And for good reason. Road transport already accounts for more than a fifth of all the UK's climate change emissions and is a major source of local pollution. Road accidents kill and injure large numbers of people - more than 3,000 killed in the UK and 900,000 world wide every year. And our car-reliant society increasingly excludes the quarter of the population with no access to a car.
PB
1 Nov 2002
Europe tries for greener transport
Paul Burall looks at some experiments in cleaning up urban transport
PB
1 Nov 2002
An African Perspective
"Europeans are shouting themselves hoarse, on full stomachs of course, about the dangers of bio-technology in agriculture" Sunday Standard, Nairobi, 08-09-2002
TP
1 Nov 2002
Bedford Hosts Jonathan Dimbleby Programme
Would you like to take part in the Jonathan Dimbleby Programme on Sunday 3 November 2002? Jonathan will be talking to the Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith, about the direction he hopes to take his party in during the coming months and his strategy for beating Labour at the next election.
30 Oct 2002