http://www.sollitt.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Steve Sollitt en-GB Steve Sollitt http://www.sollitt.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2008 Steve Sollitt 2008-11-21T15:40+00:00 United Kingdom http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000085/why_i_am_backing_clegg_for_leader.html Councillor Steve Sollitt is backing Nick Clegg to be the next leader of the Liberal Democrats 2007-11-18T15:12+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000084/steve_elected_as_chair_of_south_central_liberal_democrats.html Leading campaigner Councillor Steve Sollitt has been elected Chair of South Central Liberal Democrats at the recent regional agm in Newbury. 2007-11-18T14:58+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000083/not_long_to_wait_for_the_ice_rink_fun.html Southampton's temporary ice rink is under construction on Guildhall Square! 2006-12-04T18:10+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000082/sollitt_welcomes_central_station_improvements_but_wants_action_at_local_stations_in_city.html Steve Sollitt, Liberal Democrat Campaigner for Southampton Test and Councillor for Portswood has welcomed the combined working of the Liberal Democrat run City Council and South West Trains in completing the works to improve Southampton Central Railway Station. 2006-11-19T12:57+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000081/come_to_southampton_to_ice_skate_this_christmas__sollitt.html Councillor Steve Sollitt, Cabinet Member for Leisure and Culture in Southampton has welcomed the news that Southampton will have a Ice Rink for eight weeks around Christmas this year. 2006-10-22T16:58+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000080/green_tax_switch_essential_for_real_environmental_change_say_lib_dems.html Steve Sollitt, Liberal Democrat Campaigner for Southampton Test has backed his party's Green Tax Switch campaign. Steve said 'We must all play our part in tackling climate change' 2006-10-22T16:52+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000079/tories_just_arent_that_green__sollitt.html Councillor Steve Sollitt, Liberal Democrat Campaigner for Southampton Test has accused the Tories of not taking green issues that seriously. His comments come in a week when the Conservatives failed to support a Liberal Democrat move in Parliament on Green Taxes and also locally they failed to have a stall at a Friends of the Earth event in the city. 2006-10-22T16:32+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000078/gating_order_agreed_for_m271_footbridge.html Southampton is to become one of the first local authorities in the country to have a gating order on a footbridge. The move will close the bridge over the M271 at Old Redbridge for a initial period of 12 months. 2006-10-22T16:21+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000073/rising_carbon_dioxide_levels_show_need_for_green_taxes.html Commenting on the ice core study that shows carbon dioxide levels higher than at any time in the past 800,000 years, Steve Sollitt, Liberal Democrat Campaigner for Southampton Test, said: 2006-09-14T19:22+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000077/restoration_of_southamptons_tudor_house_museum_to_start_in_october.html Southampton City Council has announced the forthcoming restoration of the city's Tudor House Museum. 2006-09-10T15:32+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000070/lib_dems_win_by_election_from_labour.html The first electoral test of public reaction to Labour's civil war has resulted in a crushing by-election victory for the Liberal Democrats. 2006-09-10T13:39+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000074/campbell_places_opportunity_society_at_the_heart_of_liberal_democrat_policy.html Today the Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Menzies Campbell announces the creation of a new working group to tackle inequality and poverty and launches the Party's policy framework document Trust in People: Make Britain Free, Fair and Green. The document gives a clear direction of how the Liberal Democrats will tackle poverty and social injustice in Britain. 2006-09-08T22:26+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000071/simplified_benefits_systems_needed__not_expensive_it_projects.html Commenting on today's revelation that the Department for Work and Pensions has scrapped a new benefits processing computer system at a cost of £141m, Steve Sollitt, Liberal Democrat Campaigner for Southampton Test said: 2006-09-07T20:21+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000072/labour_members_defect_to_lib_dems_over_middle_east.html 37 Labour party members in Margaret Beckett's Derby South constituency have defected to the Lib Dems over her handling of the Middle East crisis. 2006-09-01T22:26+00:00 http://www.sollitt.org.uk/news/000075/liberal_democrats_publish_plans_for_fairer_and_greener_taxes.html The Liberal Democrat's Tax Commission has unveiled its proposals for a fairer, greener and simpler tax system. 2006-08-20T18:22+00:00