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• A Proper Footpath for Tor Lane

  By  JanePublisher at 21:32 on 11/08/10

  

  Pedestrians have been using a well trodden footpath on Tor Lane for the past twenty years. Now the Saltash Town Council is looking at planning permission to build a properly recognized foot path to be established along Tor Lane. The town council has to apply for the path to be added to the Definitive Map guide, which will make it officially recognized as a public footpath. The problem of the footpath and how local residents feel...

• Legal aid changes ‘will hit vulnerable in city’

  By  Saltash-People at 07:00 on 11/08/10

  

  PLANS to cut the number of law firms offering some types of legal aid could leave vulnerable Plymouth families without access to justice, says Labour MP Alison Seabeck. Ms Seabeck, the MP for Plymouth Moor View, has written to the Ministry of Justice to express serious concerns about the Law Commission proposals to cut the number of law firms supporting families through the legal aid system. She says it will impact on people’s...

• Work to Begin on St Stephens Cemetery Extension

  By  JanePublisher at 13:36 on 02/08/10

  

  The Saltash Town Council is now ready for work to begin on the long awaited extension to the St Stephens Cemetery. The new Church town cemetery will have enough space for another twenty five years, as well as space for another twenty seven allotments. The council has contracted a local firm W.H Bond and work will commence around the 9th August and take about 17 weeks. The Saltash Mayor Adam Killeya said, “The cemetery extensio...

• Saltash Town Council Meet 'More' People!

  By  JanePublisher at 13:19 on 05/07/10

  

  In an attempt to reach more people the Saltash Town Council is taking its monthly ‘Meet the People’ stall to Waitrose on 10th July, in an experiment to extend the idea outside of Fore Street. Meet the People began as a way of making sure members of the public can talk to their councillors. Each month, on the Saturday after the council meeting, a councillor from each ward mans the stall in Fore St from 10am until 12...

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