http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Hounslow Liberal Democrats en-GB Hounslow Liberal Democrats http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Hounslow Liberal Democrats 2010-02-09T07:29+00:00 United Kingdom http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/news/000333/knight_condemns_whitton_road_post_office_closure.html Cllr Stephen Knight, Lib Dem South West London Assembly Candidates has condemned the threatened closure of 12 Post Office branches across the South West London constituency. In response he has launched a petition in shops around the post offices. 2008-03-14T00:00+00:00 http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/news/000265/lib_dems_oppose_scrapping_of_post_office_champion.html Susan Kramer, Lib Dem MP for Richmond Park, is opposing plans to scrap Postwatch and to absorb it into a rejigged National Consumer Council. She is sitting on the Parliamentary committee scrutinising the Bill which will abolish a range of consumer organisations including Energy Watch. The committee will sit for a number of weeks and she will be moving amendments to try and improve the Bill. 2007-04-17T00:00+01:00 http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/news/000245/letter_alan__ann_keen_failing_hounslow_on_post_office_closures.html Dear Editor, Following Alan and Ann Keens' feeble defence of their record in protecting Hounslow post offices, I thought I would set the record straight on the Lib Dems' policy proposals in this area. 2007-02-28T00:00+00:00 http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/news/000249/keens_must_lobby_harder_for_post_offices__dakers.html Hounslow Liberal Democrats celebrated tonight after their motion to full council calling for Hounslow's remaining post offices to be saved was carried with the full support of the Council. A proposed amendment by the Labour group suggesting that MPs Alan and Ann Keen were already lobbying government was met with scorn by the other council members and was not supported. 2007-01-27T00:00+00:00 http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/news/000054/labour_fails_to_stop_post_office_closures.html In a fringe meeting on Saturday at the Liberal Democrat's Spring Conference in Harrogate Andrew Dakers, Prospective MP for Brentford & Isleworth, attacked Labour's complacency in letting almost half of the constituency's post office network disappear in just three years. 2005-03-07T13:56+00:00