Bishop's Stortford Liberal Democrats have slammed the use of tax-payers' money on a new dog training facility that opened in Southern Park on 27th July. If we were in a time of affluence, and not in a recession, the training course would be useful and fun both for the dogs and their owners - and the LibDems may well have backed it.
Cllr. Mike Wood, Town and District Councillor and leader of the Bishop's Stortford Liberal Democrats, has achieved a break-through by bringing some common sense to a local problem.
It is now nearly three years since Hockerill Anglo-European College launched their bid to have this much used footpath closed.
As explained in a previous edition of FOCUS, the Herts & Essex and Bishop's Stortford Boys' High Schools want to sell off their existing sites for housing and move to a large green belt site south of the town.
In an astonishing act of betrayal of all their promises and commitments, the Conservatives at the Full District Council Meeting on December 10th 2008 voted unanimously to give up all the Areas of Special Restraint (ASRs) - to give them up for house building.
The Conservative-controlled Hertfordshire County Council Educational Psychologist team has fewer than half the required Psychologists.
