http://bawslibdems.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Bridgwater and West Somerset Liberal Democrats en-GB Bridgwater and West Somerset Liberal Democrats http://bawslibdems.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2008 Bridgwater and West Somerset Liberal Democrats 2008-07-09T02:11+01:00 United Kingdom http://bawslibdems.org.uk/news/000009/badgers_must_be_culled.html Following reports that the Government has reject former chief scientific advisor Sir David King's advice on culling badgers, Theo Butt Philip, Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Bridgwater and West Somerset has called on the Government to think again. 2008-07-07T00:37+01:00 http://bawslibdems.org.uk/news/000008/bridgwater_and_west_somerset_has_not_gained_from_browns_first_year_as_prime_minister.html Bridgwater and West Somerset has not gained from Brown's first year as Prime Minister claim's Theo Butt Philip in a message to residents. 2008-06-27T11:39+01:00 http://bawslibdems.org.uk/news/000007/promise_of_jam_tomorrow_is_not_enough__theo_butt_philip.html Liberal Democrats in Bridgwater and West Somerset have attacked Government offers to compensate low income earners losing out under tax changes as "vague promises of jam tomorrow". 2008-04-28T10:46+01:00 http://bawslibdems.org.uk/news/000005/thousands_of_residents_in_bridgwater_and_west_somerset_suffer_tax_grab.html LIBERAL Democrats in Bridgwater and West Somerset have launched a stinging attack on the Government for bringing in tax changes that have increased income tax bills for thousands of residents of Bridgwater and West Somerset. 2008-04-21T13:14+01:00 http://bawslibdems.org.uk/news/000004/liberal_democrats_nominate_tony_bowden_for_alcombe_east.html The Liberal Democrats have announced that Tony Bowden will be their candidate in the Alcombe East by-election. 2008-04-14T12:03+01:00 http://bawslibdems.org.uk/news/000003/build_a_barrage_not_a_nuclear_plant.html Following Business Secretary John Hutton's Commons statement giving the go head for a new generation of Nuclear Power stations in the UK, local Lib Dem MEP for the South West and Gibraltar, Graham Watson, whose constituency has a site at Hinkley near Bridgwater, Somerset, which is short listed for further nuclear plants said: 2008-01-11T00:00+00:00 http://bawslibdems.org.uk/news/000002/eu_not_to_blame_for_changes_to_local_bus_service.html A suggestion that the suspension of local bus services in the region is the result of EU legislation on Drivers' Working Hours amounts to little more than scaremongering claims local MEP Graham Watson. 2007-11-05T00:00+00:00 http://bawslibdems.org.uk/news/000001/watson_welcomes_waterlinks.html Ahead of Thursday's official launch at the Docks in Bridgwater, South West Euro MEP Graham Watson has praised the efforts of organisers and pledged his support for the Somerset 'Waterlinks' Project, which is vying for Lottery funding to promote a massive redevelopment of Somerset's waterways. 2007-04-03T00:00+01:00