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Welcome to the Birkdale Lib Dem web site!
Please sign our petition to TO RETAIN A TEMPORARY TOWN CENTRE LIBRARY AT SOUTHPORT MARKET HALL (link on left)
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Thu 4th Mar 2010
The long battle to secure a temporary town centre home for Southport Library has been won. At this morning's meeting of the cabinet Birkdale Councillor Iain Brodie Browne moved that the temporary Library should go ahead in the ground floor of the Visiter Office in Tulketh Street.
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Tue 2nd Feb 2010
Vince Cable, Treasury Spokesman and Deputy Leader of the Liberal
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Fri 13th Nov 2009
• Southport's town centre Library will have to shut for nearly 3 years from early 2010 while much-needed refurbishment work is undertaken on the Arts Centre and Library complex (the £15 million "Southport Cultural Centre" project).
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Thu 12th Nov 2009
Sefton Council's ruling Cabinet has thrown out throw a proposal to relocate Southport's town centre library to the currently vacant space at the rear of Southport Market Hall during the 3 years of work on the Arts Centre and Library buildings.
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Tue 10th Nov 2009
Southport's Liberal Democrat councillors, who hold two-thirds of Southport's 21 council seats, have expressed their unanimous support for the idea of temporarily relocating the town's library into the rear of Southport Market Hall.
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Thu 29th Oct 2009
Michael Braham has kindly given us his permission to put his history of Southport Liberals on our website. The book was first published in 1985 and has been hard to get hold of for some years. You can now access the online version of the book via the button on the left.
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Wed 7th Oct 2009
Responding to the news that Crosby Labour MP Claire Curtis-Thomas is standing down at the next election, the prospective Liberal Democrat MP for Sefton Central Richard Clein said:
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| Southport General Election Result |
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Turnout: 41201 (69%)
46.3%
Liberal Democrat: 19093 (+2.5%)
37%
Conservative: 15255 (+0.5%)
12.8%
Labour: 5277 (−3.8%)
View the results in detail.
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| Quotes of the Week |
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"Anyone who wants to pass laws in this country should pay this country's full taxes and not hide behind the special offshore status of non-doms. Non-doms have to tell the taxman that their first allegiance is to another country. No-one should be a British lawmaker whose first allegiance is not to Britain. "
Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary
www.libdems.org.uk - 2 March
"I think people are entitled to expect a sensible, stable government at a time when the country is facing very, very acute choices. We take what the markets are worrying about immensely seriously. We will not take any risk with the creditworthiness of the economy. "
Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Financial Times - 3 March
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