The Liberal Democrats have today announced plans to fund at least 25 new police officers across Weston-super-Mare as part of an extra £1bn nationwide investment into community policing.
The latest figures on NHS vacancies reveal that there were 3,262 vacancies for nurses in the NHS in the South West of England in July to September 2019. This means that 10.5% of posts were unfilled, showing the NHS staff shortage crisis is getting worse.
Brexit is making the staffing crisis at Weston Area NHS Trust even worse, the Liberal Democrats have warned.
The Liberal Democrats have announced they will freeze rail fare increases for Weston-super-Mare commuters and season ticket holders for the next five years, while fixing the broken fares and ticketing system.
The Liberal Democrats have announced that they will spend £10 billion a year more on schools and hire 20,000 more teachers by the end of the next Parliament.
The Liberal Democrats have announced plans to scrap business rates and replace them with a landowner levy, to "breathe new life" into high streets in Weston-super-Mare. The party would replace business rates with a commercial landowner levy, based on the value of the land only. This would take the cost off businesses and help support high streets. The proposals would cut taxes for businesses by 19% in North Somerset, including Weston-super-Mare and the surrounding villages. By taxing landowners rather than businesses, half a million small businesses across the country would be spared the burden of property taxation. Liberal Democrat candidate Patrick Keating said: "Many retailers and small businesses in Weston and the surrounding area are under pressure from economic uncertainty, the rise of online retail and the burden of business rates. "Yet this Conservative government is failing to get to grips with the crisis facing our high streets. Time and again they have promised reviews of business rate