On the back of a record number of apprenticeships across Gloucestershire, the County Council is being urged to go one step further.

A Liberal Democrat motion submitted to full council for debate at Shire Hall next week will call for urgent improvements to ambulance response times to happen within the next three months.

The Chair of the Annual General Meeting, Cllr. Paul Hodgkinson (LD: Bourton-on-the-Water & Northleach) has today announced a change in the Liberal Democrat Leadership Team at Shire Hall:

Liberal Democrat members on the Environment & Communities Scrutiny Committee have requested for the new Minerals Local Plan to include a comprehensible policy on fracking.

Figures just released show the Cotswolds is right at the bottom of the pile when it comes to cycling.

In the spending review last summer, the government announced that it would consult on how to allocate schools funding in a fairer way. The aim of the extra cash is to address funding disparities at a national level.

A Lib Dem/Green motion will at full council next Wednesday request for the Council’s Health Committee to monitor and evaluate the data collected by the county’s acute hospitals of injuries suffered as a consequence of the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM).

A Liberal Democrat proposal costing £35K to give all Year 5 children at Gloucestershire’s primary schools the opportunity to attend a session at the SkillZone in 2014/2005 was given the green light at last week’s budget setting council meeting.

Liberal Democrats on Gloucestershire County Council will at full council on Wednesday propose an additional £1million to be spent on repairing the county’s roads as part of their 2014/2015 budget proposals.

The Liberal Democrats on Gloucestershire County Council have today issued their own package of budget proposals and the reasons for such investments. The package, which consists of a number of proposals will be presented by the Liberal Democrats at full council on Wednesday at Shire Hall.