It with great sadness that I have to report that Paul Fishwick, Wokingham Borough Councillor for Winnersh and executive member for Active Travel, Transport and Highways, passed away on Wednesday after a short illness.
Wokingham’s MP received assurances from LINK, the organisation responsible for setting up banking hubs, that they will publish a decision on whether to bring a hub to Wokingham within the next few weeks.
GPs and care providers in Wokingham will be “pushed to the brink” without an exemption from the Budget’s National Insurance tax hike, Lib Dem MP Clive Jones has said.
The Liberal Democrats in Wokingham welcome the £1bn of additional funding pledged in the government’s Autumn budget for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). However, they remain concerned that funding increases are not keeping up.
Local Liberal Democrat MP for Wokingham, Clive Jones, today secured a commitment from the Government to deliver a National Cancer Strategy for England.
As I write, I am reviewing the recently published update to our area’s Local Plan. This covers how development in our area will be coordinated out to 2040. It is the penultimate step in a process which started in 2015 and will conclude with review by a