Gosforth Ward
STOP PRESS : Liberal Democrats candidates for the City Council Elections on May 3rd are Colin FERGUSON, Philip HALL and Thomas WOODWARK
You have 3 votes for all these three candidates.
Under boundary changes, in May 2018 the East Gosforth Ward will become part of three new wards : Gosforth Ward (with part of the current West Gosforth Ward west of the High Street); Dene and South Gosforth Ward; while Garden Village will become part of Parklands Ward.
In the mean time, your current East Gosforth Liberal Democrat councillors Henry Gallagher, David Slesenger and Dom Raymont will continue to work hard to represent and support local residents .
The Liberal Democrats promise is "service and action all year round" so they would be pleased to hear from you with any queries or suggestions - eastgosforth@newcastle-libdems.org.uk
To receive Gosforth eFocus regularly (more news, more quickly, in more depth) in addition to the regular Gosforth Focus through your door, email "subscribe" and your postcode to gosforth.efocus@gmail.com
(Pictured here : Members of the Gosforth Focus Team Philip Hall, Colin Ferguson and Tom Woodwark man the High Street stall)
Councillors Surgery
You can also speak to Councillors and other members of the team to raise your query in person at our monthly surgery:
Street Stall on Gosforth High Street (next to BOOTS) - 1st Saturday of each month - 10.00am to 12 noon
where we are also joined by colleagues from West Gosforth and Parklands
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Article: Jan 8, 2019The statement by the three local councils (reproduced in full below) is a massive political cop-out and an abject failure of political leadership on the issue of the dangers of the air quality on our Tyneside streets.
Cllr Greg Stone, who speaks on transport and air quality issues for the Liberal Democrats, said "Other cities are dealing with the same challenges and the likes of Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, and Birmingham are consulting on their clean air charging proposals for polluting diesel emissions, not making excuses. We recognise that the A1 Western Bypass needs a national Highways Agency approach, but Newcastle, Gateshead, and North Tyneside had the opportunity to set out by the end of last year how they proposed to reduce emissions on the local network without a clean air charging scheme and have failed to do so.
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Article: Oct 2, 2018Newcastle Liberal Democrats would like to hear from you about domestic waste and public litter bins to inform our response to the City Council'c review of its waste strategy and our manifesto for the 2019 elections. So we invite you to complete the survey which can be found at here
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Article: Jun 27, 2018I have worked in the NHS for almost all my working life and I'm hugely proud of what the NHS achieves, Cllr Wendy Taylor who speaks on health and social care issues for the Liberal Democrats, told Newcastle City Council tonight.
As a doctor, I can't overstate how important it is to me to be able to offer my patients the best treatments available, without having to ask how much they can afford to pay. Yet as the motion says, the NHS is facing many difficulties including lack of funding, loss of staff and increasing debt. The impact of Jeremy Hunt's attack on junior doctors has been devastating, with over 50% of doctors not taking up a training post when they complete their basic training. Many are going to New Zealand or Australia, others are giving up medicine altogether. Of course many will come back to train as a GP or Consultant at a later time, but when I think of the enthusiasm and excitement of medical students when they apply to study medicine, it is so sad that much of this is lost once they qualify. And the loss of the bursaries for student nurses has been just as damaging.
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Article: May 26, 2018
The Newcastle Liberal Democrats Councillors Group consists of 19 people, representing new wards in our City.
New councillors are :
Tom Gordon - Manor Park Ward
Aidan King - Castle Ward
Colin Ferguson - Gosforth Ward
Phil Hall - Gosforth Ward
Peter Lovatt - Fawdon and West Gosforth Ward
Returning councillors
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Article: Apr 16, 2018
https://youtu.be/AGw93q_XRTI Under the Liberal Democrats from 3rd May, Newcastle upon Tyne would be a better, fairer, kinder place to live, work, study and bring up a young family.
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Article: Apr 7, 2018Vince Cable launches the Liberal Democrats local government campaign for May elections https://www.facebook.com/VinceCableForTwickenham/videos/1762217607176990/
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Article: Apr 4, 2018The Liberal Democrats in Newcastle have welcomed the announcement today on the extension of the garden waste contracts for 2017/18. Here's today's announcement from the City Council :
Garden Waste - Missed Collections
"Due to the recent extreme weather conditions, a number of households missed one or two of their planned garden waste collections. To put this right we are extending the 2017/18 garden waste year by 3 weeks, from 22nd May to 8th June so that valued customers receive all 20 collections. This means that the new 2018/19 garden waste service will commence on 12thJune 2018. We will be sending information out about this soon. Thank you for your support."
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Article: Mar 26, 2018Arriva admits it has taken 10 hybrid buses out of the North East to be used in Leeds (to avoid £100 fines??) instead but insists it has replaced them with other low-polluting models - but only Euro level 5 rather than level 6 like Sapphire buses running on some of our roads. Full story here https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/arriva-deny-north-east-air-14456535
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Article: Mar 24, 2018