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20 Most Recent News Stories
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Thu 25th Feb 2010
The Liberal Democrat opposition on Lewisham Council have announced Chris Maines will be their Mayoral candidate in May. Chris, who came a close second to the Labour incumbent in 2006 says, "I think people are ready for change and we are the main challengers. The local Liberal Democrat team is strong, willing and ready to beat Labour."
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Mon 18th Jan 2010
London's Wasted Resource, Mayor Boris Johnson's waste strategy launched today (18th January) is a wake up call to Lewisham, a council which manages to recycle only half the rate that most other London Borough achieve according to Lewisham Liberal Democrat Cllr Chris Maines.
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Thu 26th Nov 2009
A Council question from Conservative group leader David Britton has revealed that his group are Lewisham's laziest councillors and that Liberal Democrat councillors challenge the directly-elected Mayor the most.
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Thu 26th Nov 2009
Liberal Democrat councillors have expressed concern over the installation of several "mosquito" devices outside private properties in Lewisham. The devices emit a high pitch sonic frequency designed to be heard by those under 20 and are intended to stop gangs and large groups from congregating.
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Mon 16th Nov 2009
Angry train passengers are protesting at cuts to train services via Blackheath. They have launched a petition to 10 Downing Street, met with managers from Southeastern Trains and are determined to get the cut services re-instated.
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Thu 5th Nov 2009
In a shock resignation from Lewisham Labour Party, David Michael, the high-profile Chair of Lewisham Local Police Consultative Group (LCPCG), has accused his fellow Labour party activists of treating him shabbily, claiming "there is a real absence of leadership."
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Sun 1st Nov 2009
Lewisham Lib Dem Chris Maines is calling on the government not to proceed with an increased Air Passenger Duty that will hit the Caribbean community.
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Sun 18th Oct 2009
Lewisham's Liberal Democrat councillors have slammed Government proposals to make some of the poorest tenants in the borough nearly £800 a year worse off.
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Thu 15th Oct 2009
Proposed Government cuts could jeopardise parts of the concessionary fare scheme enjoyed by over a million elderly and disabled London residents. The Labour Government have drawn up plans to reduce the funding of London's Freedom Pass so that it will only cover half of the cost, leaving a £50 million shortfall.
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Tue 29th Sep 2009
Alex Feakes, Lib Dem parliamentary spokesman for Lewisham West & Penge, has been joined by popular MP Simon Hughes in congratulating Lewisham Council on signing up to the 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon emissions. Simon Hughes is the Liberal Democrats' Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
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Tue 29th Sep 2009
An Ipsos Mori survey released today puts the Conservatives on 36% (down 7), Labour on 24% (down 2) and the Liberal Democrats on 25% (up 8).
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Tue 29th Sep 2009
Forest Hill Lib Dem councillor Alex Feakes has challenged the Labour administration in Lewisham over its record on Council Tax. Figures released by the Department for Communities and Local Government showed the borough's Council Tax has risen at the quickest rate since the tax was introduced to become the highest in inner London in 2009-2010.
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Fri 25th Sep 2009
Whitefoot Liberal Democrat councillors have teamed up with local residents to call for the clean-up of a play area and park in Downham.
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Fri 25th Sep 2009
The emergency help point outside WHSmith at Forest Hill station has been broken for a long time and no-one will take responsibility for maintaining it. Forest Hill's Liberal Democrat councillor John Russell has called on Lewisham Council and Transport for London to work together to get to the bottom of the mystery.
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Fri 11th Sep 2009
Over a thousand young people in Lewisham and Bromley boroughs would be helped into work, vocational courses or higher education by new Lib Dem plans to relieve the impact of the recession on Britain's 'lost generation'.
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Thu 10th Sep 2009
Forest Hill residents are outraged that a developer has resubmitted an almost identical outline planning application to build 71 units on green land less than 4 months after a previous application was unanimously rejected by Lewisham's planning committee. The previous application that was submitted was to build 74 units in 9 blocks and was rejected in April by a unanimous vote of the committee.
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Fri 4th Sep 2009
A Labour candidate in Telegraph Hill ward in Lewisham has accused his own party of failing the poor and of leading the party "to election defeat".
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Fri 4th Sep 2009
Local Lib Dem councillor Brian Robson has slammed the London Development Agency's report into a local shopping centre as "a missed opportunity."
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Tue 1st Sep 2009
Liberal Democrats from South East London have joined with local cyclists to plead with Greenwich Council and TfL to provide an alternative when the Greenwich Foot Tunnel closes.
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Sat 15th Aug 2009
Latest figures from Lewisham Council show that the amount of waste each household is producing has risen and the amount they recycle has fallen. The figures have been exposed by Liberal Democrat councillor Chris Maines.
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