http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Lambeth Liberal Democrats en-GB Lambeth Liberal Democrats http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Lambeth Liberal Democrats 2010-03-18T03:46+00:00 United Kingdom http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000186/road_maintenance_budget_full_of_holes.html After one of the worst winters in decades, which left a borough's roads scarred and pockmarked like the surface of the Moon, Liberal Democrat Opposition Councillors have uncovered a sharp drop in spending on road maintenance in Labour-run Lambeth Council. 2010-03-11T11:51+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000185/comment_labour_lambeth_wastefest.html Labour Leader, Cllr Steve Reed, has been occupying the air-waves a lot recently saying that he will cut back on waste as a means of saving Lambeth front-line services from the savage 20% cuts after the election that even he's admitting to if he's re-elected. 2010-03-02T19:42+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000183/labour_decent_homes_con_finally_exposed.html Labour politicians have now been fatally exposed over false promises made to thousands of tenants across the borough that they could deliver substantial improvements to the crumbling public housing stock including new kitchens and bathrooms for everyone. 2010-03-02T16:43+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000182/a_liberal_democrat_budget_for_a_fairer_lambeth__and_not_just_a_freeze_but_15_cut.html Liberal Democrats in Lambeth have published their Alternative Budget and pledged a £15 cut in average council tax. 2010-02-23T11:57+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000181/so_labour_lambeth_is_to_be_the_new_john_lewis.html What a curious week. Struggling Lambeth Leader Steve Reed grabbed a few cheap headlines to demonstrate that there's life in the old dog yet, suggesting that if the electorate were to give Labour another chance down at the Town Hall after May's crucial poll he would rebrand the place as a branch of John Lewis. 2010-02-19T12:16+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000180/labour_crime_surges__so_tories_cut_police.html Only weeks after our report on the shock surge of serious crime involving knives and firearms in Lambeth and a massive wave of residential robbery across the borough breaking all attempts to contain them, Tory London Mayor Boris Johnson has just announced a cut in the operational budgets of borough Police Commanders. 2010-02-15T19:18+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000179/government_poised_to_take_over_lambeth_housing_mess.html As Labour-Lambeth's privatised housing company Lambeth Living lurches from crisis to crisis Labour have been finally forced to admit that there's a serious risk of the Government interceding if they cannot balance the Housing Revenue Account by the end of March 2010. 2010-02-08T10:41+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000176/lambeth_homeless_fraud_is_the_just_the_tip_of_an_iceberg.html Massive overpayments have been made by Labour-run Lambeth to private landlords but the amounts uncovered could be just the tip of an iceberg as fears of a multi-million pound fraud go uninvestigated. 2010-02-08T09:28+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000178/labour_hits_the_buffers_over_streatham_hub.html Streatham's leisure centre flagship enterprise known as the Streatham Hub is now thought to have reached a crisis point between the Council and Tesco. 2010-02-05T15:28+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000177/lambeth_pothole_crisis.html As the winter snow and ice recedes numerous Lambeth residential roads, already in poor condition, have been left pockmarked and debris-strewn like the surface of the moon, say opposition Lib Dem Councillors. 2010-02-04T12:05+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000175/empty_homes_jackpot_in_lambeth.html Labour-run Lambeth rarely excels in anything but it's really hit the jackpot for the number of empty council homes - and it's an absolute disgrace. 2010-01-28T10:31+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000174/serious_crime_soars_in_lambeth.html Only a week after admitting that Labour has lost the war against the drug dealers in Brixton comes the chilling news that knife and gun crime is also soaring in the borough. 2010-01-20T13:13+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000173/comment_let_them_eat_cake.html Word has escaped that bankrupt Lambeth and debt-ridden Lambeth Living has been on a whopping spending spree with your money over the past eight months. 2010-01-20T13:11+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000172/labour_throwsin_towel_over_drugs_war.html Labour's tough talk over the open sale of drugs in Brixton Town Centre within sight of the Town Hall looks to be just that - talk. 2010-01-12T18:04+00:00 http://www.lambethlibdems.org.uk/news/000171/lambeth_closes_another_swimming_pool__only_one_to_go_for_the_full_set.html No sooner had swimmers absorbed the shock announcement that the Streatham Leisure Centre had closed without warning in November and been directed to towards Clapham Pool as an alternative than the news that everyone has been dreading has just been announced. 2010-01-12T18:02+00:00