http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Liz Leffman and the Liberal Democrats en-GB Liz Leffman and the Liberal Democrats http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Liz Leffman and the Liberal Democrats 2010-03-10T13:25+00:00 United Kingdom http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000125/liz_signs_up_to_support_our_pubs.html Liz Leffman, Liberal Democrat Prospective MP for Meon Valley, has today committed to promote the interests of Britain's pub goers, champion well-run community pubs, support the rebalancing alcohol taxation to support beer and pubs, press for reform of beer tie to deliver a fair deal for consumers, and support the role of well-run pubs as solutions to alcohol misuse 2010-02-25T14:54+00:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000124/liz_leffman_commits_to_beat_cancer.html Liz Leffman. Prospective Lib Dem MP for Meon Valley, has joined hundreds of candidates across the country in signing up to Cancer Research UK's Cancer Commitment, aiming to make UK cancer outcomes among the best in Europe in the next ten years. 2010-02-25T12:30+00:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000123/liz_demands_a_fair_deal_for_our_troops.html Prospective MP for Meon Valley Liz Leffman is asking local people to sign up and support the Liberal Democrats' campaign to get a fair deal for our troops. 2010-02-11T11:19+00:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000122/wickham_labs_plan_infringes_national_park_boundary.html Liz Leffman, prospective Lib Dem MP for Meon Valley, has written to the Planning Inspector to object to the appeal lodged by Wickham Laboratories on the grounds that the proposed building falls within the boundary of the new South Downs National Park. 2010-01-10T15:18+00:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000121/anger_as_whiteley_grinds_to_a_halt_in_snow.html Liz Leffman, Prospective MP for Meon Valley, and Vivian Achwal, Lib Dem Councillor for Whiteley, have slammed Hampshire County Council after yesterday's snow caused chaos on Whiteley's only access road. The Council eventually opened the bus gate on Yew Tree Drive to relieve the situation, but did not inform anyone of this move, leaving motorists stranded and many forced to walk home and abandon their cars. 2010-01-06T17:32+00:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000120/leffman_welcomes_nhs_dentist_promises.html The Interim Chief Executive of NHS Hampshire, Richard Popplewell, has written to Prospective Lib Dem MP Liz Leffman with the promise of a new mobile NHS dentist surgery to cover Bishops Waltham, East and West Meon and Wickham. The mobile facility will be attached to a hub service in Winchester. 2010-01-05T11:04+00:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000119/liz_joins_local_police_on_the_beat.html Liz Leffman, Meon Valley's prospective Lib Dem MP, has recently been out twice on patrol with local police teams in the Waterlooville, Horndean and Clanfield area. Her aim has been to meet local police officers and to see at first hand the challenges they face in our area. 2009-12-07T14:35+00:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000118/liz_joins_climate_change_march.html Liz Leffman joined fellow climate campaigners at the national climate change march in London on Saturday Dec 5th. The march was intended to lobby world leaders to take action at the Copenhagen summit to drastically reduce carbon emissions. 2009-12-05T18:28+00:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000117/liz_relaunches_bus_back_tonight_campaign_following.html Liz Leffman is re-launching her campaign to get evening bus services reinstated in the Meon Valley villages, because Hampshire County Council has ignored the pleas of hundreds of people who signed a petition two years ago when the service was cut. 2009-10-20T11:14+01:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000116/success_for_campaigners_as_speed_restrictions_implemented.html Liz Leffman and the local Lib Dems have learned that Hampshire County Council have finally agreed to implement safety measures to stop speeding on Yew Tree Drive, close to Whiteley Primary School, following a long campaign and evidence from a vehicle activated speed detector. 2009-10-05T15:11+01:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000115/why_must_whiteley_wait_asks_liz_leffman.html Exactly one year ago, Liz Leffman and a group of Whiteley residents presented a petition to Hampshire County Council, asking for key distributor roads in and out of Whiteley to be opened in order to ease traffic congestion in the village. One year on, the roads remain closed except for buses, and the report on a computer modelling study conducted by independent traffic consultants last October still has not been released. 2009-09-17T16:49+01:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000114/inspector_slams_hedge_end_sda_proposals.html Winchester City Council's strategy for the proposed development of 6,000 houses at Hedge End has been described as "unsound" by the planning inspector, following an advisory visit between August 24th and 28th. 2009-09-16T18:11+01:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000113/policy_pledges_are_good_news_for_hampshires_young_people.html A Liberal Democrat pledge to help almost 900,000 young unemployed people find work is good news for Hampshire, says Prospective MP Liz Leffman. 2009-09-10T15:12+01:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000112/liz_joins_fight_for_oak_park_hospital.html Liz Leffman and the Meon Valley Liberal Democrats have joined forces with colleagues in Havant to collect signatures on a petition to save plans for the new community hospital at Oak Park. The team were out together last Friday in Waterlooville town centre, where they collected hundreds of signatures at the popular Friday morning market. 2009-08-31T12:24+01:00 http://www.lizleffman.org.uk/news/000111/35330_young_peoples_dna_stored_by_hampshire_police.html The Government's DNA database holder has revealed that 35,330 young people in Hampshire have had DNA swabs taken and stored on the national database. 2009-08-13T11:51+01:00