First impressions are important at election time. Everybody heard the Lib Dems are doing badly as the results came in on Friday, May 6. But unless you were glued to the TV that day, you will probably have missed the subtler messages being delivered by the electorate up and down the country.
We managed to double our number of district council seats in Buckingham constituency, from two to four.
April 2011 News Round Up Pitstone Quarry 2 Application for landfill turned down
Proposals to permanently close Cheddington station's ticket office in June have been strongly criticised by Aylesbury Vale District Councillor Corry Cashman. At present the office is open during weekday morning peak hours.
The local party's motion's motion to Regional Conference in Oxford (Oxford Brookes University, Saturday, October 30) on the 'Speaker's Seat' issue was carried overwhelmingly with only one vote against. The motion was proposed by Bette Melling, with Llew Monger providing the summing up.
In the past year Aylesbury Vale District Council (AVDC) has dropped a further 23 places among local authorities for recycling and composting: it is now 383rd out of 394 local authorities throughout England - 11 places from the bottom of the league tables. (Six years ago it stood 156th out of 408 local authorities).
