Hinckley & Bosworth Liberal Democrats

Six Sure Start Children's Centres that were due to be closed by the Conservative County Council have now been saved thanks to campaigns from residents and Lib Dem councillors.

24 Children's Centres in Leicestershire were due to be closed by the Conservative County Council. Hinckley Lib Dem County Councillor Michael Mullaney tried to amend the County Council budget earlier this year to save the Children's Centres but this was voted down by Conservative County Councillors who voted to close them.

A leading local Liberal Democrat is calling for the final EU deal to be put to a vote of the people.

Leicestershire Lib Dem County Councillor Michael Mullaney said "The Conservative government is in chaos with minister after minister resigning. There's a complete lack of direction and leadership at the top of government.

Plans to abolish Hinckley and Bosworth Borough have been condemned by a Hinckley County Councillor.

The Conservative leader of Leicestershire County Council, Nick Rushton, has launched a proposal to abolish all the Boroughs and Districts in Leicestershire and create one Leicestershire wide authority.

The train service running through a Leicestershire town has been branded abysmal and an appeal made for more trains to stop in the town.

At present trains from Hinckley to Leicester and Hinckley to Birmingham stop hourly. Hinckley Lib Dem County Councillor Michael Mullaney is pressing for trains to stop more regularly in the town. Michael Mullaney said "Hinckley is a large and growing town. It's abysmal that we only get trains stopping here hourly. If we are to encourage more people to get off the roads and onto public transport the public transport available needs to be far more regular.

Liberal Democrats in Hinckley and Bosworth are calling for part of the extra funding announced for the NHS to be spent on properly financing local health services in our area, halting the planned £20m of cuts by the CCG in 2018/19 and finally providing Hinckley with the walk-­in health centre our growing community so desperately needs.

The Conservative MP for Hinckley and Bosworth David Tredinnick has faced anger over his decision to ask the Prime Minister about homeopathy today instead of the crisis in the local NHS.

A public meeting organised by Leicestershire County Council held at the Greentowers Centre in Hinckley heard parents and campaigners call for 24 threatened Sure Start Children's Centres to be saved.

Amongst those attending was the local County Councillor Michael Mullaney (Lib Dem Hinckley De Montfort) Michael said "The Sure Start Children's Centres do vital work in our communities. They support children and families at the most important time, in the child's early years.

Local campaigners have reacted with anger at the revelation that money was the only reason the government cancelled plans to improve rail services in Leicestershire.

Last year the government cancelled plans to electrify the East Midlands Mainline north of Kettering, which runs through Leicestershire and much of the East Midlands. The Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the improvements weren't needed because the rail service would be improved instead by the use of bi-mode trains.

The Lib Dems secured a surprise win in last Thursday's Earl Shilton Town Council by-election, defeating the Conservative candidate, the local Borough Councillor and Hinckley and Bosworth Cabinet member by more than 2-1.

In the Earl Shilton Church Ward by-election Lib Dem Emma Harrison secured 94 votes, Labour's Michael Lehane 55, while Conservative Richard Allen, Borough Councillor for Earl Shilton and Executive member for planning got 46 votes.

Hinckley and Bosworth's Tory MP David Tredinnick is under fire after using two major parliamentary debates last week to raise yet again the use of alternative medicines in the NHS.

In a debate on Tuesday about Brexit and the NHS Mr Tredinnick claimed Brexit was good as it was an opportunity to integrate Chinese alternative Medicine into the NHS. And in another debate on the subject on Thursday he raised the subject of using homeopathy in the NHS post Brexit.