Local Liberal Democrats have held six wards at the 2012 local elections, including all five wards in Nick Clegg’s Sheffield Hallam constituency. Cllr Colin Ross, Deputy Leader of the Lib Dem Group, was re-elected for his ward of Dore & Totley. A number of new candidates were elected across Sheffield in Lib Dem held wards [...]
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Celebration signals victory for Clegg and local rail campaigners
Sheffield Hallam MP and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg dropped into Dore Station to help celebrate recently announced improvements to local rail services. Nick joined long standing campaigner and local Lib Dem Councillor Colin Ross today. Dore Station on the Hope Valley Line is to be doubled in size with an extra track, a second [...]
Councillors hail Clegg’s Youth Contract to tackle unemployment in Sheffield
Local councillors in Sheffield have welcomed Lib Dem action in Government today as the Coalition Government’s £1 billion Youth Contract begins. The Youth Contract, which was announced last year by Deputy Prime Minister and Sheffield Hallam MP, Nick Clegg, aims to ensure that all jobless young people are earning or learning again before long-term damage [...]
No provision for Lib Dem jobs plan despite previous Council promise
The Labour leadership on Sheffield City Council are being urged by local Lib Dems, including Nick Clegg MP, to honour a previous pledge to implement a local Liberal Democrat plan for jobs. The policy would use £400,000 saved when council staff went on strike in order to fund extra job opportunities for young people. The [...]
£16,425,092 to get Sheffield’s young people earning or learning
Liberal Democrat councillors in Sheffield have welcomed the announcement of £16,425,092 new Government funding to be targeted at unemployed young people in the local region. Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat Sheffield Hallam MP, announced the new fund to get unemployed young people today (Feb 21). Yorkshire & the Humber will see £16,425,092 [...]
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Local Elections 2012
