Hertfordshire Liberal Democrats

People who have to care for elderly relatives - often their own parents - in addition to the demands of work and family life are to receive training in care techniques and an entitlement to help, such as respite holidays. Councils will have to assess what support carers need. Everyone will be offered advice and guidance and means-tested financial assistance to pay for services will be available to those who qualify.

Big decisions have to be taken in the next twelve months if the European Union is to be saved. This is the message from UEF president Andrew Duff MEP to mark Schuman Day, 9 May.

"The post-war project of European unification is under attack. Nationalist forces are rising again across Europe as the response of the current leadership to the deep economic crisis proves to be inadequate. So here is a seven-point programme with big things that, taken together, will reverse the trend to disunity:-

On Saturday 20th April 2013 the Tring Town Mayor, Councillor Nick Hollinghurst was presented with the Fairtade Foundation's Certificate in a ceremony in Tring Market Place which formally renewed Tring's status as a Fairtrade Town.

Michael Demidecki, Secretary of the Justice & Peace Group, made the presentation. The Justice & Peace Group, which is affiliated to Churches Together in Tring, acts as the Fairtrade Steering Group for the town. As such, they carried out a rigorous assessment of the extent to which Fairtrade products are accessible, sold and used within the town to ensure that Tring did still in fact qualify for fairtrade status.

A property development scheme partly using railway land and aimed at providing more than 1,000 student units - the so-called CB1 Development - has generated significant funds to improve Cambridge Station. £4.25 million has been released by Brookgate, the Cambridge based company behind CB1, as part of a land deal with Network Rail and a 3-way agreement between Brookgate, Network Rail and Cambridge City Council.

On Friday morning Hertfordshire Liberal Democrats were delighted when their colleague Paul Zukhowskyj took a seat from the Conservatives. This was a double triumph since the losing Conservative was no other than the former Executive Member in the administration, Stuart Pile, who had been responsible for Highways and the Environment.

Liberal Democrat County Councillors, Nick Hollinghurst, representing Tring & the Villages, and Ron Tindall, representing Hemel Hempstead St Pauls, have been re-elected.

They are seen here in County Hall in under the watchful gaze of Pope Hadrian IV, Hertfordshire's only pope (so far).

Both were comfortably re-elected with good majorities, easily seeing off the pretensions of UKIP, who trailed 4th behind Labour in Hemel Hempstead St Pauls and who managed a poor 3rd place in Tring only because of Labour's weakness in the area.

This is the plan Liberal Democrat Councillors want to deliver should they get into a position of power at County Hall. The full Manifesto can be found on the website www.sixtofix.co.uk

For a list of Liberal Democrat candidates in Hemel Hempstead & Dacorum visit http://hhlibdems.org.uk/en/page/election-candidates