There is a cross-party campaign to keep the UK in Europe: www.strongerin.co.uk. There is also a specifically Liberal Democrat campaign stressing why our values lead to supporting a reformed European Union: www.libdems.org.uk/europe.
Our friends at Colchester Lib Dems have launched a petition calling on "Essex County Council and Colchester Borough Council to ensure that buses, taxis and heavy goods vehicles that enter our town centre are zero or low emission models or fitted with filters to control harmful exhaust emissions."
In an article in today's Gazette, Wivenhoe Cross Councillor Mark Cory has expressed his concerns about safety in the ongoing roadworks to construct a cyclepath between Wivenhoe and the University of Essex. He told the paper:
A happy Christmas to all our readers from North-east Essex Liberal Democrats!
Following the AGM and the first meeting of the newly-elected Executive Committee, which made a co-option and settled a non-elected responsibility, the new Executive Committee to run the local party is:
