Earlier this month, the Deputy Leader of Kingston Council attended the graduate2business event at Kingston University: a locally run project which helps unemployed graduates find employment and supports businesses in recruiting skilled interns.

The Leader of Kingston’s Liberal Democrat-run Council has commented on the launch of an innovative practice by the local authority to discourage the sale of puppy farmed dogs in the borough. The Council will now apply additional conditions onto all new and renewed licences of local pet shops.

A grant from Kingston’s Liberal Democrat-run Council is helping improve the environmental credentials of a barge run by local charity The River Thames Boat Project.

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Kingston has yet again received a dreadful financial settlement from Gordon Brown’s Labour Government.

Last week, the Government revealed the provisional figures for its 2010/11 grant settlement for local authorities. The Royal Borough of Kingston received the minimum 1.5% “floor” increase, despite recessionary pressures creating increased demands on the Council’s services. Kingston’s grant continues to be one of the lowest in London.

Yesterday afternoon Kingston’s Fairtrade councillor Liberal Democrat Bart Ricketts, helped out at a road show outside the town centre’s Guildhall which sampled and promoted ethically-sourced products.

He said: “Kingston’s Liberal Democrat-run Council is committed to being a Fairtrade Borough. We offer Fairtrade products at meetings, public events and even in ‘snack boxes’ in our offices.

Community Services at Kingston Council have been inspected by the Care Quality Commission and given a score of 3. This is the second highest of four grades, and is rated as 'Performing Well'.

At 1st December meeting of the Executive, Kingston’s Lead Member for Schools announced that the borough would be receiving better-than-expected levels of Government funding for the expansion and new build of local schools.

At last week’s Executive meeting, Kingston Council’s Lead Member for Economic Development updated the chamber of the local initiatives which the local authority is running to help residents and local businesses during the economic downturn.

In the week before world leaders meet at the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen, Kingston Council formally signed up to the 10:10 carbon cutting commitment.

The Leader of Kingston Council has slammed Conservative PPC for “jumping on the bandwagon” of a successful campaign led by local Liberal Democrats.

The opposition group on Kingston Council carried out another re-shuffle of its shadow portfolio holders this evening. They gave increased responsibility to the discredited Cllr Ian George, who was described as “often speak[ing] a lot of rubbish” by a Conservative colleague at the very same meeting.

Opposition members of Kingston Council arranged a seven hour long Scrutiny meeting this week on the One Council programme, starting at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. In attendance was Conservative councillor Ian George who just two months ago complained on his on-line blog that daytime meetings were “undemocratic” and “annoying”.

The Liberal Democrat councillors who are leading the local campaign against fuel poverty, have welcomed the news that the Prime Minister is planning on including an Energy Bill in this week’s Queen’s Speech.

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The Liberal Democrat councillors who are leading the local campaign against fuel poverty, have welcomed the news that the Prime Minister is planning on including an Energy Bill in this week’s Queen’s Speech.