Essex County Council is proposing to redevelop the former Rainsford High school site in Fox Crescent, north Chelmsford. Local Essex County Councillor Stephen Robinson is continuing the Lib Dem campaign to ensure that there is a community hub on the site and that it does not all go for houses.

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Chelmsford's new leisure centre is costing £10 million more than the orginal estimate of £25 million, and now fees to use the facilities are set to rise to help plug the gap.

Chelmsford Lib Dem councillor Stephen Robinson said the ballooning costs made a mockery of the decision not to have a diving board at the centre where former world champion Rebecca Gallantree first learned her craft.

Essex County Council is piling up debts, as more and more residents take out loans to pay for their care fees.

Councillor Stephen Robinson said: "We have to have a complete review of the way social care is funded.

"Local government is in crisis. The Government refuses to recognise the depth of the crisis and they are not taking action at a national level.

It is heart-breaking that the epidemic of violent crime is claiming the lives of so many children.

A senior police office has now revealed that children as young as nine are being caught carrying knives.

We urgently need more police officers on our streets to restore the community policing that helps to prevent violent crime.

The delay in implementing a planned and much needed reduction in the maximum stake on fixed-odds betting terminals is completely unacceptable.

These machines are a blight on our society and undeniably damaging to vulnerable people.

The Government's inaction is ruining lives and they must not be allowed to continue making these excuses that only benefit bookmakers.

Residents in Harwood Road, and many of the roads off it, are becoming very aware that parking locally is more of a problem, as well as across the whole of Chelmsford.

With the usual difficulties at the start and end of the school day, we now find that commuter parking is also becoming an issue. Since other roads close by will soon be part of the residents parking permit scheme, commuters and others are moving this way, parking and walking into town.

In July 2016, in the aftermath of the referendum, the Liberal Democrats were a lone voice calling for a final say on whatever deal was done on Brexit.

Last week, an estimated 700,000 people marched on the streets of London, calling for a people's vote on Brexit.

That makes it the biggest protest since the Iraq War.

The Civic Society and a range of other local groups have arranged a series of events under the title "Chelmsford in the Great War"

• Visit to Stow Maries airfield tomorrow (20 October)
• Great War Books: Meet the Authors 2nd November 7.00 pm in Anglia Ruskin University
• Concert in the Cathedral on 7th November, City of London Sinfonia