http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Birkdale Liberal Democrats en-GB Birkdale Liberal Democrats http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Birkdale Liberal Democrats 2010-03-11T10:56+00:00 United Kingdom http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000033/southport_library_to_get_temporary_home_in_visiter_offices.html The long battle to secure a temporary town centre home for Southport Library has been won. At this morning's meeting of the cabinet Birkdale Councillor Iain Brodie Browne moved that the temporary Library should go ahead in the ground floor of the Visiter Office in Tulketh Street. 2010-03-04T16:17+00:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000032/local_business_people_take_tea_with_vince_cable.html Vince Cable, Treasury Spokesman and Deputy Leader of the Liberal 2010-02-02T15:57+00:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000031/online_petition_to_retain_a_temporary_town_centre_library_at_southport_market_hall.html • Southport's town centre Library will have to shut for nearly 3 years from early 2010 while much-needed refurbishment work is undertaken on the Arts Centre and Library complex (the £15 million "Southport Cultural Centre" project). 2009-11-13T08:32+00:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000030/anger_over_library_decision.html Sefton Council's ruling Cabinet has thrown out throw a proposal to relocate Southport's town centre library to the currently vacant space at the rear of Southport Market Hall during the 3 years of work on the Arts Centre and Library buildings. 2009-11-12T18:29+00:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000029/support_for_library_relocation_to_southport_market.html Southport's Liberal Democrat councillors, who hold two-thirds of Southport's 21 council seats, have expressed their unanimous support for the idea of temporarily relocating the town's library into the rear of Southport Market Hall. 2009-11-10T12:08+00:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000028/southport_liberals_the_first_hundred_years.html Michael Braham has kindly given us his permission to put his history of Southport Liberals on our website. The book was first published in 1985 and has been hard to get hold of for some years. You can now access the online version of the book via the button on the left. 2009-10-29T21:41+00:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000027/clein_responds_to_news_that_crosby_mp_is_standing_down.html Responding to the news that Crosby Labour MP Claire Curtis-Thomas is standing down at the next election, the prospective Liberal Democrat MP for Sefton Central Richard Clein said: 2009-10-07T16:27+01:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000026/sefton_council_gagging_proposal_comes_under_attack.html Councillor Simon Shaw has condemned a proposal from Sefton Council's Standards Committee which could prevent councillors from telling the public how they voted on controversial issues. 2009-10-02T08:16+01:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000025/cultural_centre_plans_revealed.html Lib Dems have been pressing for full information about the situation at Art Centre, Art Gallery and Library in the town centre to be made public. This has now been done and can be seen by following the link below. 2009-09-18T09:16+01:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000024/on_the_blog_recently.html It has been a busy time on the blog. There are stories about the Arts Centre, the identification of building land in Birkdale, the Southport Beer Festival, various fundraising activities, student loans, allotments, the consultation on the elected Mayor and much more besides 2009-09-18T09:11+01:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000023/students_face_loans_chaos.html Students face loans chaos 2009-09-13T00:59+01:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000022/save_southport_library.html It is time to take action over the so called cultural centre in Southport-that is the Art Gallery, Library and Arts Centre. The dire state of the buildings has been revealed to councillors. Failure to act now could lead to the complex being closed and boarded up. A minimum of £8m is needed to keep the buildings open. If we are to spend that sort of money then we can lever in significantly more cash to do a proper job. The full report is in the download section of the website and there is a link at the foot of this article. More information-including photos will follow 2009-09-04T12:04+01:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000021/relaxation_of_mobile_phone_mast_moratorium_in_sefton_will_help_ensure_that_masts_are_not_placed_too_close_to_schools.html Cllr. Tony Robertson the Lib Dem Leader on Sefton Council says that he hopes that the Council will agree to relax the presently rigid mobile mast moratorium when it debates the matter on Thursday of this week. 2009-09-01T12:55+01:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000020/call_for_fair_deal_on_pcso_numbers.html Birkdale Councillor Simon Shaw is a newly appointed member of the Merseyside Police Authority (MPA) and has been working hard with Southport's Lib Dem MP John Pugh to get a fair deal over Police Community Support Officers (PCSO) numbers locally. 2009-08-30T14:16+01:00 http://www.birkdalelibdems.org.uk/news/000019/southport_flower_show.html Lots of photos and videos about the Flower Show on the blog this week, including a story about the good work done by the Birkdale Youth Centre which has been show cased at the show 2009-08-22T15:27+01:00