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News 2009: September - July

Sep 29 Why Cable's mansions tax is right

Sep 29 From the Borough Recycling Newsletter

Sep 24 Government must come clean on Heathrow climate costs - Hughes

Sep 22 Richmond Bridge structural repairs will cost £360,000

Sep 22 Airtrack Plans Will Create Traffic Nightmare - Kramer

Sep 22 MP Supports Plastic Bag-Free Call For Richmond

Sep 21 MP launches 'quiet areas' petition to Parliament

Sep 21 MP and councillors call on Government to fill concessionary fares funding gap

Sep 21 Mayor's Promises 'Not Good Enough' Over Rape Crisis Centres - Kramer

Sep 20 Over 600 Businesses In Richmond Would Pay Crossrail Levy

Sep 20 Report Does Not Show True Costs Of Heathrow Expansion - Kramer

Sep 20 Cleaning Up Our Stretch Of The Thames Must Be A Priority - Kramer

Sep 19 Allotments: making room to grow

Sep 19 Transport: the equal right to breathe

Sep 19 Cycle training making residents bike-aware

Sep 19 £1 million new pavilion for North Sheen footballers

Sep 19 Council wins £200,000 for low carbon zone

Sep 19 High speed rail needs value for money test

Sep 19 Council thanks Father Thames Trust for donations

Sep 19 Passionate about cycling? Be an ambassador

Sep 19 Judicial Review of Government's Heathrow decision welcomed

Sep 19 Earl of Wessex reopens 'magnificent' Terrace Gardens

Sep 19 Third runway 'will not reduce stacking'

Sep 19 CO2 parking is working

Sep 19 Richmond upon Thames' roads are safer than ever

Sep 19 Council switches to 100 % biodiesel

Sep 19 Shoddy' Royal Parks plans will cause parking chaos

Sep 19 The RichmondCard - making parking easier

Sep 19 Best ever GCSE results

Sep 18 Students to learn dangers of cocaine

Sep 18 New focus on hate crime

Sep 18 Don't make crime prevention a game of chance

Sep 18 Success for Council's anti-fraud team

Sep 18 Residents' co-operation with police praised

Sep 18 Barn Elms revamp gets go ahead

Sep 18 Young politicians needed to represent borough

Sep 18 Upgraded pool reopens

Sep 18 Volunteers decorate new home for independent living

Sep 18 100 year olds needed for celebration

Sep 18 Getting ready for the swine flu epidemic

Sep 18 Making essential information easier to find

Sep 18 More ways to pay your bills

Sep 18 Better pavilions for borough parks

Sep 18 Views wanted on policies to guide growth of borough

Sep 18 10:10 - Committing to cutting CO2 emissions

Sep 18 Take a bite from Council's green apple

Sep 18 Start recycling with cheap compost bins

Sep 18 Team hopes for winning graves

Sep 16 Tackling the financial crisis

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Aug 27 Bike ride promotes cycling to secondary schools

Aug 27 New bus route work praised by experts

Aug 27 Great British inventing praised

Aug 26 Cycle starter packs launched to get Richmond pedalling

Aug 26 Borough's cyclists praised for wheely great challenge result

Aug 26 Car club membership rockets as residents save thousands

Aug 26 New gardens' bridge will be boost for cyclists

Aug 26 Dodgy drivers warned over parking fraud

Aug 26 Court backs Council's work to keep town centre shipshape

Aug 26 Delight at £50,000 saving as Whitton toilet refurbished

Aug 26 Borough achieves best ever recycling rates - residents thanked

Aug 26 Awards win for pro-environment business

Aug 26 Council kills off record number of toxic caterpillars

Aug 26 Should Council keep 'no casinos' policy?

Aug 26 Council kick starts regeneration of Barn Elms

Aug 26 £1 million for more borough playgrounds

Aug 26 Record numbers for youth services

Aug 26 2,500 over-60s go swimming - for free

Aug 26 Young people shape plan for future of children's services

Aug 26 Richmond upon Thames primary schools best in the country - yet again

Aug 26 London Underground: should lines be completely shut to speed up engineering work?

Aug 26 Rugby World Cup success is 'outstanding' result for Twickenham

Operation Lockout improving bike security

Aug 17 Jo Swinson launches 'Real Women', a women's policy paper

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Jul 30 Nick Clegg: A Fresh Start for Britain

Jul 29 Huhne on ID Cards

Jul 29 Liberal Democrat briefing on Identity Cards

Jul 29 Field and Browne on the 10p rate of Income Tax

Jul 28 Davis on Government Policy (Torture Overseas)

Jul 28 The Last Debate of the Session: Gurkha Pensions

Jul 27 Harris and Swinson quiz Ward and Wills on Seditious and Criminal Libel and a Citizens' Convention

Jul 27 Heath on the Glasgow North East by-election

Davey on the European Union

Jul 27 Harris, Swinson and Breed on Israeli settlements in Palestine

Jul 27 Webb and Barrett on the Child Poverty Bill

Jul 27 Kramer quizzes Irranca-Davies about sewage in the Thames

Jul 27 Gidley, Kramer, Hancock, Hemming and Sanders quiz Burnham on Swine flu

Jul 27 Kennedy quizzes Lammy on Overseas students

Jul 27 Davey, Campbell and Russell on Afghanistan and Pakistan

Jul 26 Huhne on Gary McKinnon and the US-UK Extradition Treaty

Jul 26 Hughes quizzes Miliband on the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan

Jul 26 Baker quizzes Mr Speaker

Jul 26 Cable quizzes Lewis on Kenya

Jul 26 Rowen, Hughes and George quiz Darling and Byrne

Jul 26 Webb on Gypsies and Travellers

Jul 26 Cable quizzes Darling on the Comprehensive Spending Review

Jul 26 Lamb and Burstow on Care and Support (Reform)

Jul 25 Clegg, Featherstone and Russell quiz Brown on Defence

Jul 25 Harvey on British Troops (Helmand Province)

Jul 25 Browne on rates of alcoholic liquor duty

Jul 25 Kramer quizzes Hanson on Overseas Students (Visas)

Jul 25 Thurso and Hemming quiz Lucas on MG Rover

Jul 25 Mulholland and Huhne on the Kingsnorth Climate Camp (Policing)

Jul 25 Thurso on UK Manufacturing

Jul 25 Rowen, Rennie, Horwood, Farron and Hughes quiz Miliband on Energy and Climate Change

Jul 25 Heath quizzes Harman on the Business of the House

Jul 25 Harris, Huhne, Campbell and Younger-Ross quiz Hanson on Newspapers (Surveillance Methods)

Jul 25 Hughes quizzes Hanson on Control Orders

Jul 24 Russell and Baker on Road Safety

Jul 24 Hughes quizzes Norris on Recycling

Jul 24 Laws on Looked-after Children

Jul 24 Kennedy and Howarth on the Industrial Carbon Emissions (Targets) Bill

Jul 24 Willott, Kramer and Featherstone on the Archer Inquiry

Jul 24 Baker on Air Quality (Aircraft)

Jul 24 Carmichael, Alexander, Campbell, Öpik and Mulholland quiz D Miliband

Jul 24 Cable and Teather on Repossession and Mortgage Arrears

Jul 24 Davey quizzes Miliband on Iran

Jul 24 Laws quizzes Balls

Jul 24 Clegg quizzes Brown on 'Building Britain's Future'

Jul 23 Dee Doocey: Police must show respect for peaceful demonstrators

Jul 23 Raising the flag for borough's parks

Jul 23 Businesses getting greener thanks to council

Jul 23 Council acts to tackle cigarette litter

Jul 23 You'll never be caught short again

Jul 23 On your marks, get set, green!

Jul 23 Elderly warned over doorstep conmen

Jul 23 Lazy drivers are pushing up crime - police

Jul 23 Top award for borough crime team

Jul 23 Kramer quizzes Mole on trains and platforms

Jul 23 Dispersal zones launched in Twickenham and Richmond

Jul 23 Corrupt Council official sentenced

Jul 23 Crackdown on abuse of older residents

Jul 23 Café Sunshine opens on Twickenham Riverside

Jul 22 Hampton Hill school is best in London for sustainability

Jul 22 New children's centre for Hampton

Jul 22 Tory Reversal On Heathrow Would Be A Betrayal Of Londoners And The Climate - Kramer

Jul 22 Nick Clegg: A Westminster stitch-up has seen both main parties dodge reform demands in the dash for the recess door

Jul 22 Kramer, Browne and Burstow quiz Byrne on Equitable Life

Jul 21 Twickenham Riverside contract signing delayed until October

Jul 20 Vince Cable: how to reform banking regulation

Jul 16 Clegg quizzes Brown

Jul 16 The Status of the Planning Commit

Jul 9 Britain's Afghanistan war aims

Jul 9 Cable, Thurso and Kramer quiz Darling on the Banking White Paper

Jul 8 Cable, George and Goldsworthy quiz Harman

Jul 8 Cllr Serge Lourie comments on the 'referendum' on Twickenham Riverside

Jul 8 Riverside2

Jul 7 Dee Doocey: Lessons learnt over G20 policing must now lead to real changes

Jul 7 Vincent Cable: The bankers cannot believe their luck

Jul 7 Vince Cable's New Statesman Diary

Jul 2 Cllr Serge Lourie comments on the 'referendum' on Twickenham Riverside

Jul 2 A Lebanese meal with Ed Davey

Jul 2 Clegg, Hughes, Swinson and Öpik quiz Brown

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