Liberal Democrats have welcomed the news that Darwen Rail Station is to be improved. Lib Dem Cllr. David Foster said, we have campaigned to get facilities improved for some time. In particular there are no facilities to inform passengers about when trains are due and of any delays. This has meant that passengers have been left on the platfroms not knowing when a train will arrive.
Local Lib Dem Councillor David Foster has welcomed the improved bus service for Whitehall on Saturdays. Transdev have announced that they will be improving their service from Darwen Cemetery on Saturdays. The new service will be every 20 mins and starts from 12 November. Cllr Foster explained, we have had a number of complaints that there is no Number 1 service from Darwen cemetery to Blackburn on a Saturday, only the 225 service from Bolton to Blackburn which is every 30 minutes. I am pleased that Transdev have agreed to increase the frequency of the 225 service to every 20 minutes. This will be a big improvement for the people of Whitehall and give more frequent access to both Darwen & Blackburn Town centres.
Plans promoted by David Cameron's chief strategist, Steve Hilton, to abolish unfair dismissal laws have been rejected by the business secretary, Vince Cable, as "unnecessary, based on no evidence and unlikely to improve labour market flexibility".
Anyone who read the papers today will have noticed the headlines of the 'shocking' reduction in the number of applications to universities: applicants from within the UK has fallen by 11.9% and applicants from within the EU has dropped by 9.3%. They go on to quote even more stats such as
This is a letter in The Guardian (25 Oct 2011)
Amendments to the Pensions Bill Parliamentary approval These proposed changes to the timetable are not yet law and still require the approval of Parliament