Families face another £3.4bn bill for decades of water company neglect. Toothless Ofwat keeps rewarding failure. The Government promised to scrap it. It’s time to follow through and end the blank cheques.
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Iris Murdoch Amongst the Artists: Newly discovered works, including the self-portrait and the surrealist landscape paintings, are on display at the University of Chichester Library until 10 December – the first ever devoted to Murdoch as an artist. #BookSky www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
Iris Murdoch artworks from secret room go on display – including self-portrait
Second world war paintings and sketches show novelist ‘engaging with her world in a new light’
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Liberal Democrat led West Sussex County Council has launched a new Highway Ranger pilot to take action in local communities for cleaner and better-maintained streets. www.westsussex.gov.uk/news/a-fresh...
A fresh look for West Sussex streets as the Highway Ranger pilot launches - West Sussex County Council
New pilot to take action in local communities for cleaner and better-maintained streets
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£20bn in debt. Customer bills soaring. 💩 in our rivers and beaches. Chance after chance to sort it out... ...instead they choose to fill their own pockets. Game over. The Govt must put Thames Water in Special Administration now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thames Water gave finance chief a £1m signing-on fee
The seven-figure payment was given to Steve Buck as part of package to persuade him to join the troubled utility company.
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Training is underway! 🏃🏽♀️ With the Chichester Half Marathon and Great South Run coming up in October, I’m raising funds for the amazing Petworth Community Wellbeing Garden💚 Any donation, share or encouragement would mean so much! 🔗 localgiving.org/fundraising/... #Petworth #Fundraising #GreatSouthRun
Nearly everyone knows someone with special educational needs or a disability. For too long, they've been let down by a broken system. It's time they got the help they need.
From pensioners left bedbound to life savings being spent on dementia care, our system better resembles the 1920s than the 2020s. Andy Burnham must work with local government and the NHS to finally end the social care crisis.
Travel on the bus this August for free for children aged between 5 - 25 years. Great way to spend the summer holidays, visiting friends, visiting new places and helping families during the cost of living crisis. #Westsussex #summerbusfare #freebusfare #Summerholidays
‘How to fix #SocialCare without raising taxes’ is the headline.
Liberal Democrats@libdems.org.uk · 3w agoEd Davey has cared for his mother, his grandmother, and now his son. As cross-party talks on social care begin, he argues it can be fixed by finally putting the millions of unpaid family carers at the heart of any deal.
“Fewer officers on our streets means less time to investigate crimes like car theft, and less deterrent for the criminals carrying them out,” said @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social "I'll keep pushing ministers to properly fund neighbourhood policing in Sussex.” www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/crime/c...
Chichester MP renews call for neighbourhood policing after car theft figures revealed
Chichester MP Jess Brown-Fuller has renewed her call for a fully resourced return to neighbourhood policing, after new figures revealed the pressures facing Sussex Police in tackling vehicle theft.
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We’re already spending £35bn a year on a broken social care system. All political parties should recognise the urgent need to fix the social care crisis. @LaylaMoran.bsky.social
It’s not just the capacity to supply clean water, but also to process foul drainage from new housing developments, as we know too well in Chichester.
Cllr Richard Bates 🔶@cllrbates.bsky.social · last mo.Great to see at today’s PMQs @alisonebennett.bsky.social asking Starmer if he will require water utilities to confirm they have capacity before new housing developments get planning approval. 👏
Chichester’s MP @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social supported the Coastguard Rescue Officer Payments urgent motion, and invited the Minister to visit Selsey in her constituency and meet the dutiful Coastguard officers who will be affected.
Happy July 4 America! 🇺🇸 Yesterday I had the opportunity to see a piece of American history, in the heart of Chichester! Did you know we have one of only two copies of the original Declaration of Independence? More information is available on the Events tab on the West Sussex Record Office website
The Amos Review into maternity services has been published today. We're calling on the government to implement its recommendations in full, invest in safe staffing, and ensure women are listened to. Families deserve safe, compassionate maternity care wherever they live.
Watch @joshuareynoldssl6.bsky.social GRILL eBay bosses. If Joshua can find banned, unsafe products on eBay with 30 seconds of Googling, why can't eBay identify them and stop them being sold?
WSCC LibDem Councillors Izabela Mayne @izu75.bsky.social and Tracie Bangert at Witterings Library and with the Royal British Legion on Armed Forces Day
West Sussex carer population appears to be growing with around 350 ‘new’ carers registering every month for support with @carerswsussex.bsky.social (CSWS) the commissioned provider of the countywide Carer Information, Advice, Assessment & Support contract.
The carousel of Prime Ministers keeps turning, but nothing really changes. This time must be different. Real change – transforming our broken politics so we can fix our country.
At West Sussex County Council this week, the new Alliance Administration has been facing scrutiny committees. LibDems identified £13.6M overspend in the previous administration and the work still to be done in Adult Services and #SocialCare www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
West Sussex County overspends on social care by more than £13m
The £13.6m overspend on a budget of £311m is £6.1m lower than the overspend in 2024/25.
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Clare Apel, a Lib Dem Councillor in Chichester and Chair of Chichester District Council, has been appointed an MBE for services to the voluntary sector, to local government and to Holocaust education. Congratulations!
Ed Davey@eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 2mo agoClare Apel has been a councillor in Sussex for nearly 40 years. She founded Chichester Marks Holocaust Memorial Day to spread recognition and education of the Holocaust. Clare was a founding trustee of Stonepillow, a homelessness charity, for 28 years. Congratulations Clare on your MBE!
🌍 : “What once felt unusual is increasingly becoming the norm, and it underlines why we need to be taking climate change seriously, both in how we talk about it and, crucially, in how we act to change the worrying trajectory we currently appear to be on” www.sussexexpress.co.uk/your-world/p...
Political opinion with Jess Brown-Fuller MP: Taking climate change seriously
See the latest news from Your World at https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/your-world
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Chair of Chichester District Council, Cllr Clare Apel, describes how she started the committee to commemorate the #Holocaust in Chichester 11 years ago with then-Mayor Martyn Bell, so we never forget what happened in #Auschwitz. www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/the-pai...
The pain and anger behind Chichester's Holocaust commemoration
Chairman steps down
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Chichester LibDem members are Blazing Paddlers on Sunday 7 June. Please consider supporting our fundraising efforts here: www.justgiving.com/page/blazing...
Blazing Paddlers fundraiser for Dragon Boat Challenge
Help Adrian Moss raise money to support Rotary Club of Chichester Priory
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As temperatures soar outside of summer and extreme weather events become more common, it's clear we need a plan to keep vulnerable people safe and keep our country running.
Chichester LibDems 🔶@chichesterlibdems.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe new West Sussex County Council meets for the first tome today, Friday 22 May. Though elections on 7 May left WSCC in no overall control, which party will run the newly-elected council? Watch it online to find out! www.westsussex.gov.uk/about-the-co...
The new West Sussex County Council meets for the first tome today, Friday 22 May. Though elections on 7 May left WSCC in no overall control, which party will run the newly-elected council? Watch it online to find out! www.westsussex.gov.uk/about-the-co...
Watch county council and committee meetings online - West Sussex County Council
Watch live and archived webcasts of full county council and other committee meetings.
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