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Yes to Europe
The 67% Irish vote in favour of the Lisbon Treaty is a vote against the Conservative and UKIP politicians who tried to urge a no vote and who would like to see us withdraw from Europe at the cost of…
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Conservative Council plans to dump new housing on Burgess Hill
Mid Sussex District Council seems intent on imposing the bulk of the housing required under the government's housing targets onto Burgess Hill, having issued a press release outlining its favoured…
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Survey reveals 2,000 schools may be unable to balance their books
Thousands of schools are already experiencing a funding squeeze and are expecting to be unable to balance their books by the end of the year, research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed. At a time…
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Tories give council chief massive pay hike
Local Tories running Mid Sussex council have given the Chief Executive a massive pay hike. According to council figures, his basic salary in 2008 was £125,000. Now they have hiked it to £147,000 for…
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Council fouls up on dog fines
Why does it take ages for Mid Sussex District Council to implement its own council's decisions. In July 2008 the Council agreed to use the powers available to it under the Clean Neighbourhoods and…
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Action on climate change - new 10:10 campaign launches
10:10 is a new all party campaign supported by the Liberal Democrats and launched this month to reduce the UK's domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 10% during 2010. By signing up, any individual,…
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Mid Sussex Council needs to stop giving small scale housing developers a free ride
New housing sites can often occur when larger gardens or other small sites are redeveloped, these "windfall" housing sites provide several hundred new houses a year, yet our Conservative District…
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Triangle planning campaign has won!
At the District Council Planning Committee meeting, last Thursday, Thornfield's application to build a DIY store on the Triangle car park was REFUSED.
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Support the petition against proposed DIY store on Triangle leisure centre site
The planning application for a proposed Homebase on part of the Triangle leisure centre site is ill-founded and unjustified - there is no demonstrative need for this development, which is an…
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Warning on Mid Sussex bogus tax refund email scam
Local campaigner Serena Tierney is warning people to be on their guard for an email scam designed to try and get details of personal information relating to individuals' tax affairs. The email, which…