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20 Most Recent News Stories
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Mon 8th Jun 2009
Liberal Democrats in Sheffield have thanked voters after celebrating seeing their share of the vote increase in last week's European Elections. In stark contrast the Labour Party vote collapsed by over 9%, a much greater decline than many other Yorkshire areas including Leeds, York and Kirklees. In addition the Tory share of the vote saw a decrease in Sheffield and the Green Party also failed to make an impact after being beaten into fifth place.
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Wed 27th May 2009
Simon Hughes MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesman for Energy and Climate Change today to join Sheffield Central Lib Dem Parliamentary campaigner Cllr Paul Scriven in the fight against the installation of barriers at Sheffield Station.
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Tue 19th May 2009
Cllr Paul Scriven, the Liberal Democrat Leader of Sheffield City Council, has thrown his weight behind Sheffield United's bid for promotion back into the Premiership outlining the huge benefits that a Premiership club would bring to Sheffield.
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Tue 12th May 2009
Liberal Democrats have taken the fight to keep Sheffield Post Offices open back to the government, with a new idea for a Post Bank.
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Fri 8th May 2009
Liberal Democrats in Sheffield are calling on the government to destroy the DNA records of over 925,000 innocent people. Government plans announced yesterday to reduce the database, will still hold DNA data for people not charged for any offence.
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Fri 8th May 2009
Cllr Paul Scriven, the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary spokesman for Sheffield Central, has challenged his Labour opponent to denounce local Labour councilors for refusing to vote against increasing University top-up fees as part of a Governments review this year.
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Thu 16th Apr 2009
Local Liberal Democrats have responded angrily to reports that Network Rail is encouraging train companies to invest more quickly in station barriers - just weeks after a mass protest over the proposed gating of Sheffield Station's footbridge.
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Mon 6th Apr 2009
Local Lib Dem Councillors and local residents in Crookesmoor and Upperthorpe have come together to launch a petition against a proposal for a new Tesco store in the area.
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Sun 5th Apr 2009
Paul Scriven and local Lib Dem Councillors from Walkley, Broomhill and Crookes have launched their objections to a proposal for a new Tesco store affecting Crookesmoor and Walkley. The move comes just a year and a half since local residents and councillors defeated plans for a Tesco on exactly the same site.
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Tue 10th Mar 2009
The controlling Liberal Democrat Group on Sheffield City Council have delivered a Council Tax increase of 1.95%, the lowest that Sheffield has ever seen, at Friday's budget setting meeting in the Town Hall. Lib Dems have passed a budget that also sees extra investment in areas that are important to local people such as dealing with anti-social behaviour, tackling climate change and improving opportunities for local people to recycle.
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Tue 10th Mar 2009
Paul Scriven has just been interviewed by local blog 3am Girls, giving us a unique insight into what makes him tick, why he got involved in politics, and even how he likes his toast...
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Tue 3rd Mar 2009
Liberal Democrats on Sheffield City Council are calling for the Government to step in, in the row over barriers at Sheffield Station. Lib Dems will put a proposal before a meeting of Council on Wednesday (4th March) to gain approval for a cross-party Council delegation to meet with Geoff Hoon MP, Secretary of State for Transport, to ask him to intervene on behalf of Sheffield.
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Thu 30th Oct 2008
"In May Sheffield people elected the Liberal Democrats to power on the promise of a programme for change. I hope that local people can see that we have already made some short term changes for the better in the City. Things like providing green waste sacks for free, putting an extra 15 police community support officers on the streets and undertaking the biggest road and street sign renewal Sheffield has ever seen.
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Tue 14th Oct 2008
The wishes of 20,000 Sheffielders who signed petitions calling for post offices across the city to be saved from closure have been ignored, it was announced today. Just one of the 16 branches facing the axe has been granted a reprieve, Post Office Ltd have confirmed. The post office which has been saved is Wadsley Bridge. The Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Sheffield Central, Cllr Paul Scriven said he was "disappointed and frustrated" with the news but pledged to meet with Post Office Ltd to discuss if and how any of the branches can be kept open.
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Mon 6th Oct 2008
Cllr Paul Scriven, the Lib Dem Parlimentry spokesperson from Sheffield Central has written to the Prime Minister calling for an end to parts of Sheffield being 'frozen out' under the Governments cold weather payments system. The Government uses weather stations as far away as Nottingham to measure if Sheffield people are cold enough to receive a £25 cold weather payment.
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Mon 22nd Sep 2008
On Saturday people in Sheffield City Centre were joined by Paul Scriven the Leader of Sheffield City Council in the bid to save Sheffield's threatened Post Offices.
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Mon 23rd Jun 2008
Government officials have turned down Sheffield's bid for work on two key areas of the City under threat from flooding. Paul Scriven, Lib Dem Parliamentary spokesperson for Sheffield Central and the leader of Sheffield City Council is now demanding that Sheffield gets its fair share of investment to prevent flooding.
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Tue 20th May 2008
The local Burmese community and Paul Scriven have thanked the people of Sheffield for generously donating to help those affected by the Burma Cyclone disaster. Over the weekend collections were held in three locations. Outside the Town Hall, on the Moor and at the Peace Gardens. Local people generously donated £2,563 - all going direct to help those ht by the cyclone in Burma. The Burmese Karen Community were supported by local Paul Scriven.
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Mon 14th Apr 2008
Paul Scriven, Lib Dem Parliamentary Spokesperson for Sheffield Central, is protesting after it was revealed the Government made over half a billion pounds from the floods that devastated Sheffield and other parts of the UK. This week the 'Taxpayers Alliance' revealed that the Treasury made an extra £525m from taxpayers through VAT for work carried out to rebuild property damaged by the flooding in the summer.
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Fri 14th Mar 2008
Local Liberal Democrats have taken their campaign to save Sheffield Post Office's to Number 10 Downing Street. Under the Labour Government plan up to 2,500 Post Offices will close nationally, with Sheffield set to find out which of it's local branches are earmarked for closure in August. Cllr Paul Scriven, Lib Dem Parliamentary Spokesperson for Sheffield Central, traveled down to London to help present a national petition against Labour's planned closures. Paul has been leading the campaign to save Post Offices in Sheffield.
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