Leading local Lib Dem, Serena Tierney has called for the MSDC Audit Committee to set up an urgent investigation into council finances after an audit report into last year's Big Culture Show revealed catastrophic failure of MSDC's financial management systems.
Lib Dems on West Sussex County Council are dismayed at yet another tax hike from the Conservative administration.
Responding to the announcement of which local post offices could be closed, local Lib Dem Parliamentary Spokesman, Serena Tierney says: "While it is good news that the government is not proposing to close our village post offices we cannot afford to lose our local post offices in the towns. We have to step up our fight to keep these crucial local services."
"A disappointing string of announcements with no vision and little to offer local people in Mid Sussex." That's the verdict of Lib Dems as local residents digest the Government's plans for the next year.
A petition with 2500 signatures of local people calling on the Prime Minister to reverse the policy of closing local post offices has been delivered to Gordon Brown.
Commenting on the success of the e-petition to save the Princess Royal Hospital on the Downing Street website, Serena Tierney said:
An e-petition calling on Gordon Brown to intervene to save the PRH is now live on the No. 10 website.
Lewes MP Norman Baker has today renewed his calls for a clear government strategy to deal with the threat of bluetongue after government vets confirmed the first UK case of the disease at a farm in Suffolk.
An article in the Independent on Sunday identifies Mid Sussex as one of the key seats that the Lib Dems could win in a snap autumn general election.
Cllrs. Charlotte Jones and Trevor Fisher are proposing that Haywards Heath Town Council takes action to set up an Environmental Forum in the Town. Charlotte said
Local campaigners for the A&E and maternity services at the PRH took their fight to Downing Street on Wednesday as Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister. They joined campaigners from other Sussex and Surrey hospitals outside the gates so that the new Prime Minister passed them on his way to and from Buckingham Palace.
Following questions raised by Serena Tierney, Lib Dem parliamentary spokesman for Mid Sussex, the transport minister has today confirmed that the new Gatwick Express service to Brighton will also serve Haywards Heath with some services stopping at Burgess Hill, Wivelsfield and Hassocks.
