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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
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Janet Rowe, Michael Mullaney and Denise Wood collecting signatures

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
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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

6 Oct 2012
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Call to speed up new laws on metal theft

Call to speed up new laws on metal theft Local Liberal Democrats are calling on the government to speed up passing further laws to tackle the blight of metal theft. The call comes after a metal theft from the St Mary's Parish Hall in Hinckley. This follows an attack earlier this year on the St Mary's church roof by metal thieves that cost £50,000 damage. Earlier this year Cllrs Michael Mullaney (Lib Dem Hinckley Trinity) and Cllr David Bill (Lib Dem Hinckley Clarendon) wrote to the Home Secretary asking for more action to tackle metal theft. 　 The government is supporting some measures to toughen up the law on dealing in scrap metal; these include outlawing cash payments for purchasing scrap metal, fines for offences involving stolen scrap metal rising and police would having powers to enter scrap metal yards. 　 Michael Mullaney said "This further attack shows how important it it to take firm action to deal witht the menace of metal theft. I hope the government will set aside time to pass the Metal Theft Prev

13 Aug 2012
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