Conservatives yesterday unveiled a major new policy paper to reform England's 'broken' planning system. It outlines proposals to use 'open source' democracy and neighbourhood involvement to encourage sustainable development.
Today's newly released unemployment data shows a small reduction of just 3,000 fewer unemployed to 2.46 million, and the regional figures for the West Midlands show a reduction of 16,000 to 252,000 for the three months to December 2009. But beneath these figures lie some alarming trends.
The campaign to save Stourport's postal delivery office continues from strength to strength, with many local residents signing petitions. Local Conservatives have been delivering thousands of reply cards to all houses in Stourport, giving local residents the opportunity to sign and return, showing their support for this important local resource. This is in addition to the petitions in local shops, the facebook group and the petition on the Ten Downing Street website.
Mark Garnier, Wyre Forest’s Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, today welcomed new Conservative plans to deliver the roll out of superfast broadband at speeds of up to 100 Mbps across the West Midlands by 2017.
The ongoing campaign to save Stourport's Royal Mail delivery office took a new turn today. Sue Bennett, Practice Manager at the York House Medical Centre in Stourport, added her name to the local businesses and services campaigning with representatives of the Communication Workers Union to save this important resource.
The minor injuries unit at Kidderminster hospital has lost, on a "temporary basis", its two doctors. The doctors were brought in to enhance the service provided by the MIU, and in a small away sought to redress the losses of full A+E services a decade ago.
Mark Garnier, Wyre Forest's Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, this week strongly endorsed radical and bold new plans - set out in the Conservatives' draft election manifesto - to tackle crime and to restore confidence in Britain's 'broken' criminal justice system.
Stourport-on-Severn faces more cuts to postal services just 14 months after the town lost one of its local post offices. But this time, it is the local sorting office that faces the axe. Local staff are worried that the local sorting and delivery office could close as soon as April, with services moving to the sorting office in Kidderminster's Crossley Retail Park. The fears come after a manager was put in place to run a feasibility study and cost analysis.
