Today, Groby Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Councillor and Parish Councillor Martin Cartwright, along with Groby Parish Councillor Colleague Ted Hollick left the Conservative Party and joined the ruling Liberal Democrat group, at Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council.
Liberal Democrat councillors and campaigners are delighted that plans to build four phone masts in Hinckley and Burbage have been rejected.
A group of local bus services that were at threat of being axed have been reprieved.
Over 1,600 people in Hinckley and Burbage have declared their opposition to plans to erect a series of phone masts.
Two and a half thousand people in Hinckley and Bosworth have signed a petition to save the cheque. The petition, organised by local Liberal Democrats, has been posted to the Prime Minister.
Local Liberal Democrats have welcomed the news that an estimated 1,590 people in Hinckley and Bosworth will stop paying Income Tax altogether. On top of this another 47,000 will pay £200 less a year in Income Tax.
