http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Cornwall Liberal Democrats en-GB Cornwall Liberal Democrats http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2009 Cornwall Liberal Democrats 2009-07-04T15:22+01:00 United Kingdom http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000069/lib_dem_fair_deal_for_cornwall_launched.html Liberal Democrats have launched a detailed manifesto for reform and lower council tax at Cornwall Council. 2009-04-28T10:02+01:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000068/big_day_for_cornwall_as_new_council_opens_for_business.html Cornish MPs have welcomed the advent of the new Council for Cornwall this morning in a special House of Commons motion. 2009-04-01T13:12+01:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000067/labour_and_tories_fail_to_support_fuel_poverty_fight.html Legislation aimed at ending fuel poverty suffered a setback today, when Ministers refused to give it their support and instead talked the Bill out. 2009-03-23T13:07+00:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000066/mps_battle_for_cheaper_water_bills.html The Government is being pressured by Liberal Democrat MPs to bring forward changes to water bills to cut them for most South West water customers, following a further above inflation rise in bills. South West water bills, set by the water regulator OFWAT, have been far the highest in the country since water was privatised by the Conservatives in the 1980s. 2009-03-19T14:47+00:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000065/cornish_mps_support_the_fuel_poverty_bill.html Cornwall's Liberal Democrat MPs will be in Parliament tomorrow to lend their support to a new parliamentary bill aimed at ending fuel poverty. The Fuel Poverty Bill, tabled by David Heath, Liberal Democrat MP for Somerton and Frome, receives Second Reading on Friday 20th March and calls for a massive home insulation programme intended to halve the energy needed to heat the average home. 2009-03-19T14:34+00:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000064/mps_dismay_at_government_handling_of_cornish_boundaries.html Liberal Democrat MPs in Cornwall have expressed their dismay that the recommendations put forward by local councils on improving ward boundaries for Cornwall Council have been ignored by the Government. 2009-03-13T11:07+00:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000063/nick_clegg_in_cornwall.html At the end of last week, Party Leader Nick Clegg came to Cornwall for a 24 hour visit split over two days. He wanted to see both the best of what Cornwall has to offer and some of the problems that rural areas such as ours have to cope with. 2008-05-26T19:28+01:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000061/prime_minister_confronted_on_second_homes.html Gordon Brown has backed away from answering questions over his planned reform of the Capital Gains Tax despite fears that it could intensify the shortage of affordable homes in Cornwall. 2007-11-28T00:00+00:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000062/green_energy_cornwall.html Cornwall County Council has been named runner-up "green energy champion" in the 2007 South West England Green Energy Awards. 2007-11-26T00:00+00:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000060/lib_dem_hopefuls_bid_for_cornish_support.html Liberal Democrat leadership hopefuls Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne visited Cornwall this weekend to bid for local party members' support. 2007-11-26T00:00+00:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000059/bus_service_cuts_have_left_residents_stranded__mp.html North Cornwall's MP, Dan Rogerson, has met with residents in the West Park area of Egloshayle as part of the campaign to have the local loop bus service reinstated. 2007-11-25T00:00+00:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000058/mp_welcomes_new_veteran_scheme.html Today's announcement that St Austell will be one of six areas to pilot better healthcare for veterans, including those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, has been welcomed by the local MP. However, Matthew Taylor MP is calling for the scheme to be made national. 2007-11-23T00:00+00:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000057/tory_no_confidence_in_local_conservative_candidates.html The Conservatives, whose MPs were defeated in Cornwall having saddled the county with the highest water bills in the UK, amongst the highest unemployment, lowest wages and unfair Government funding, have now voted no confidence in their parliamentary candidates. 2007-07-27T14:41+01:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000056/truro_and_falmouth_select_their_prospective_parliamentary_candidate.html Leading Cornish campaigner and "Cornish Business Woman of the Year", Terrye Teverson, has been selected by Truro & Falmouth Liberal Democrats as their parliamentary candidate for the next General Election. 2007-07-21T00:00+01:00 http://www.devon-libdems.org.uk/news/000055/st_austell_and_newquay_select_prospective_parliamentary_candidate.html Local man Stephen Gilbert has been announced as the Lib Dem's choice to run for the new St Austell & Newquay seat in the next General Election - winning nearly three times as many votes as his closest rival. 2007-07-04T00:00+01:00