http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Oxfordshire Liberal Democrats en-GB Oxfordshire Liberal Democrats http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2009 Oxfordshire Liberal Democrats 2009-07-04T11:24+01:00 United Kingdom http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000295/steering_group_for_headington_road_works_not_needed.html At today's County Cabinet meeting, the Conservative administration ignored a request from the Liberal Democrats to allow local councillors to attend meetings of the former Steering Group for Headington and Marston Transport. Instead, they decreed that the group was no longer necessary. 2009-06-23T17:48+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000294/liberal_democrats_elect_leader_deputy_and_shadow_cabinet.html Cllr Zoé Patrick has been re-elected as the Liberal Democrat Group Leader on Oxfordshire County Council. Cllr Jean Fooks was re-elected as the Deputy Group Leader. 2009-06-17T12:43+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000293/liberal_democrats_and_labour_propose_opposition_chairs_of_scrutiny.html Opposition Groups on Oxfordshire County Council today joined forces to nominate opposition Chairs to the County's scrutiny committees. Liberal Democrat Chairs were proposed for the Children's Services, Adult Services and Growth & Infrastructure Scrutiny Committees, and Labour Chairs for the Strategy & Partnerships and Safer & Stronger Communities Scrutiny Committees. However, the Conservative majority elected Conservative Chairmen and Vice Chairmen for all five Scrutiny Committees. 2009-06-16T14:36+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000292/tories_break_decadesold_tradition.html Oxfordshire County Conservatives have broken the long-established tradition of sharing the non-political positions of Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Council amongst the various groups in turn. This year would have been the turn of the Lib Dem opposition, but instead Conservatives have been elected as both Chairman and Vice Chairman. Further to this, the Conservatives announced that they will keep these positions for the next four years. 2009-06-16T14:30+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000291/county_election_results.html The County Council election count has finished. 2009-06-05T11:05+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000290/nick_clegg_visits_oxford_to_thank_volunteers.html During Nick Clegg's visit to Oxford last Thursday, Nick joined County Group Leader, Zoe Patrick and South East candidate for the European Parliament, Catherine Bearder, on a special trip to the Oxford Liberal Democrats, where they thanked volunteers for the hard work they are doing to get Liberal Democrats elected on the 4th June. 2009-06-02T15:52+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000289/vote_lib_dem_says_the_observer.html "Support the Lib Dems next Thursday", says The Observer. As well as its Editorial, an article by Andrew Rawnsley praises Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats in the run-up to the elections for the European Parliament and the County Council as the one party that has consistently advocated Constitutional Reform and the one that has come out of the expenses scandal much less sleazed than either Labour or the Tories. 2009-05-31T12:00+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000288/shameful_pact_dismisses_second_look_at_queen_street.html Labour voted with the Conservatives today to dismiss the idea of asking the County Cabinet a second look at the Queen Street bus stop proposals. This is despite a Labour motion at Council in April asking for the exact same scheme to be deferred. 2009-05-05T16:59+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000287/ambitious_for_oxfordshire__county_liberal_democrats_launch_election_manifesto.html Today, Oxfordshire Liberal Democrats launch their manifesto for the County elections, or their ambitions for the County and the Council. 2009-05-01T13:01+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000286/lib_dems_call_in_queen_street_plans.html County Liberal Democrats have "called in" the Cabinet Member for Transport's decision taken yesterday on Queen Street. 2009-04-24T16:33+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000285/liberal_democrats_will_cut_peoples_income_tax_bill_by_700.html In advance of tomorrow's budget, Oxfordshire Liberal Democrats have welcomed Lib Dem national plans to cut income tax bills for people on low and middle incomes by £700. 2009-04-21T12:39+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000284/call_for_noisy_roads_to_be_tackled_turned_down_by_conservatives.html A Liberal Democrat motion asking for noise monitoring to be carried out, to find areas badly affected by road traffic noise, was turned down today by the Conservative administration at the County Council. 2009-04-07T16:29+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000283/supermarkets_should_reduce_packaging_say_lib_dems.html County Liberal Democrats today successfully persuaded the County Council to act to help ensure that supermarkets reduce the amount of packaging they produce that cannot be recycled. The Council also agreed to ask the Oxfordshire Waste Partnership - of which it is part - to support retail outlets that use less packaging overall or more recyclable packaging, such as farmers' markets. 2009-04-07T15:14+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000282/lib_dems_support_retained_firefighters.html Liberal Democrats are calling on Government to renegotiate the opt-out from the EU Working Time Directive, to avoid problems with retained firefighters in Oxfordshire. At the Council meeting tomorrow they will be asking the Cabinet to write to HM Government about the threat this causes to Oxfordshire's fire and rescue services and to urge them to fight for the opt out clause to be retained. 2009-04-06T09:53+01:00 http://www.oxfordshirelibdems.org.uk/news/000281/lib_dems_call_for_smart_meters_on_hire_at_libraries.html Liberal Democrats at the County Council are trying to help residents during these difficult times by introducing measures to maintain lower fuel bills. Many families have been hit hard by the recession and need to cut their outgoings so we would like to introduce them to "smart meters". These can be plugged into every home so that householders are aware how much electricity their electrical appliances are using. In turn this then helps them reduce their energy bills, by turning off "greedy" appliances, and thus reducing carbon emissions and helping to tackle fuel poverty. 2009-04-03T13:54+01:00