Hinckley Lib Dems back PCSOS
Cllr David Bill, deputy leader of Hinckley and Bosworth Council successfully moved the following Motion at last night's Council meeting -
19 Sep 2012
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Keep the number 7 bus says Borough Council
On Tuesday evening Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council backed a motion which called for the saving of a bus service that covers many local villages.
19 Sep 2012
Stop the Composting Site call at hearing
On Tuesday an Appeal Hearing was heard into plans to put a large composting site near Fenny Drayton and Higham on the Hill.
19 Sep 2012
Keep the Number 7 bus
Keep the Number 7 bus Councillors in Hinckley and Bosworth are being urged to support a campaign to keep the only bus service that serves a host of local villages. The Number 7 bus services, which connects local villages including, Fenny Drayton, Sheepy Magna and Parva, Congerstone and Witherley to Ashby De La Zouch and Nuneaton faces being axed. Conservative run Leicestershire County Council have been consulting on scrapping the service. Councillors Bill Crooks (Liberal Democrat, Barlestone) and Michael Mullaney (Liberal Democrat, Hinckley Trinity) are putting a motion to the next Borough Council meeting calling for the Number 7 to be kept. Cllr Bill Crooks said "This service needs to be retained. I have been contacted by people who use this service to get to work. At a time when the Coalition government is trying to encourage people into work, it's wrong to get rid of the only bus service for people in these villages. I've also been contacted by elderly residents who depend on the bus for travel from the vi
12 Sep 2012
People flock to support ambulance re-think
On Monday morning several hundred people signed a petition calling for the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) to re-think plans to close Hinckley Ambulance Station. Local health campaigners, Janet Rowe and Denise Wood from the Pensioners Action Group and Cllr Michael Mullaney (Lib Dem, Hinckley Trinity) ran the petition from a stall in Hinckley's Britannia Shopping Centre. Michael Mullaney said "The response was great. In a few hours hundreds of people had signed up to the call for EMAS to re-think its plans for Hinckley's Ambulance station. "People were very supportive of Hinckley continuing to have an amubulance station. EMAS are going to have to put a very convincing case if they want to persuade people that closing Hinckley's Ambulance Station is the right thing to do."
14 Aug 2012
Hinckley Ambulance Station Petition
You can sign the petition calling on East Midlands Ambulance Service to rethink its plans to close Hinckley Ambulance station by visiting the petitions section of our website. For paper copies please call 07576 289910
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