http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from David Rendel en-GB David Rendel http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2008 David Rendel 2008-09-06T03:40+01:00 United Kingdom http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000160/tories_snub_flood_victims__rendel.html Shadow Finance spokesman David Rendel has slammed West Berkshire's ruling Conservatives following a crunch vote on making council tax concessions to those still forced to live upstairs in their homes following last July's flooding. 2008-07-01T22:23+01:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000159/no_time_to_lose_to_save_post_offices.html "West Berkshire Council must be prepared to put its money where its mouth is," says David Rendel, Newbury's Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson. 2008-06-17T19:35+01:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000158/mp_challenged_over_burghfield.html "Did he know, and, if not, why not?" 2008-05-28T08:19+01:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000157/byelection_shows_tories_sliding_further.html A massive effort by the Conservatives to regain Thatcham North in last Thursday's Thatcham Town Council by-election came to nothing as the Liberal Democrats more than doubled their majority from 98 to 240. The seat had been lost by the Conservatives to their Liberal Democrat opponents in another by-election on January 10th. But the result of this by-election (which was called by the Conservatives) exactly three months later was an even bigger win for Liberal Democrat, Glyn Slater, by 831 votes to 591. As usual there was no Labour candidate. 2008-04-15T13:11+01:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000156/sad_day_for_vodafone_employees.html "Losing your job is always traumatic, and I have every sympathy for the 450 Vodafone employees who are about to lose theirs", commented David Rendel, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson for Newbury. 2008-03-18T18:52+00:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000155/tory_makes_16m_budget_error.html The Conservative Finance Portfolio Holder on West Berkshire Council, Laszlo Zverko, made a massive error at the Executive meeting of the Council on Thursday evening. In answer to a question from Liberal Democrat Councillor, Alan Macro, Councillor Zverko claimed that a figure of -£8,218,691, given as the cumulative budget to date for the Chief Executive's Dept., must be a misprint for +£8,218,691. 2008-03-07T08:22+00:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000154/tories_vote_down_fairer_safer_greener_district.html West Berkshire's Liberal Democrats have expressed their anger following the Full Council meeting which set the budget for 08/09. "The Conservatives have claimed that they want the District to be Fairer, Safer and Greener", explained Shadow Finance spokesman David Rendel. 2008-03-06T13:58+00:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000153/lib_dems_launch_green_proposals_and_lower_council_tax_rise.html Lib Dem Finance spokesman David Rendel has today unveiled a series of proposals to amend West Berkshire Council's budget for 2008/9, which is due to be debated at a meeting of full council tonight. 2008-03-04T10:09+00:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000152/earthquake.html "One of the problems of living in a 300-year-old house is that the lack of modern foundations makes your home much more vulnerable in an earthquake", commented David Rendel, West Berkshire's Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson at 1:30 am on Wednesday morning, just half an hour after England's latest earthquake was felt across a wide area of the country. 2008-02-27T09:31+00:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000151/treating_the_taxpayers_with_contempt.html "The Conservatives have treated the taxpayers with utter contempt", David Rendel, West Berkshire's Liberal Democrat finance spokesperson, said today. Mr Rendel was commenting on the proposal by the Conservatives to raise Council Tax next year by 3.9%. 2008-02-06T22:07+00:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000150/thatcham_byelections_surge_to_libdems.html Big swings to the Liberal Democrats in yesterday's two Thatcham Town Council by-elections show that the initiative in the battle for the Newbury constituency is now slipping away from the Conservatives. 2008-01-12T13:14+00:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000149/flood_victims_disenfranchised.html Some flood victims who were forced to evacuate their homes and live temporarily elsewhere may be about to miss out on the chance to vote for the area in which they usually live. They include victims in Thatcham Central and Thatcham North, where Town Council by-elections will take place on January 10th. 2007-12-14T21:28+00:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000148/po_chickens_coming_home_to_roost.html "Three more West Berkshire villages are threatened with becoming lifeless dormitories, following the news that the Post office has decided to close the Post Offices in Chapel Row, Englefield and Hampstead Norreys", said Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson, David Rendel, commenting on today's announcement by the Post Office. 2007-12-12T09:07+00:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000147/lib_dems_call_for_low_2008_council_tax_increase.html West Berkshire Liberal Democrats' Finance spokesperson, Councillor David Rendel, is calling for a low 2008/9 council tax increase following the government grant announcement earlier today. 2007-12-09T15:04+00:00 http://www.davidrendel.org.uk/news/000146/ten_flood_victim_families_faced_by_eviction_owing_to_incompetent_insurers.html Councillors were appalled on Friday to be told that no less than ten families living in the Regency Hotel in Thatcham due to flood damage to their homes had been threatened with eviction because the Insurers had not made the necessary payments of the Hotel's bill. 2007-11-26T15:29+00:00