... healthy and safe communities. @ Setting a new agenda. The plan was agreed by councillors, with Conservative group leader Coun Don Jowett adding: “I welcome this as a fleshing out of the strategic plan. “It is a document with specific targets and ones which ...

... made education a priority and sacrifices have had to be made in other areas in order to achieve this.” Tory leader Coun Don Jowett said the Labour-controlled council had done a fair job in a difficult situation. o But he added: “The tax payer will be ...

... be in the engine room. What | can assure you is that none of you will be lignored.” - But Conservative group leader Coun Don Jowett did not share the same enthusiasm for the trip. He commented: “I have to say on behalf of my group it is a journey we pd ...

... t. We have received promises, not this year but next year. Now it is not going to be next year.” he said. lowever, Coun Don Jowett said the problem was not a new one. “I'here have always been more requests for school building work, more than the finance ...

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... controversial move last week Lib-Lab councillors collaborated to defeat a motion tabled by Conservative group leader, Coun Don Jowett, which would have slashed councillors’ expenses and allowances by 15 per cent. This, he says, would have released over £75 ...

... school playing fields are surplus to requirements would boost the council’s capital budget. Conservative group leader Coun Don Jowett, speaking at the full council meeting, said getting approval from the Secretary of State to sell the fields was yet another ...

... residents won’t notice it’s there.” Several councillors expressed concern at the plans, but a call by Conservative councillor Don Jowett for the decision to be deferred for a site visit and a look at other sites was rejected by two votes. Panel Chairman Coun ...

... run our education service so that it was effective and brought out the potential of our young people,” he said. But goun Don Jowett, Leader of the Conservative group, told the committee that without knowing the Standard Spending Assesments or capping limits ...

... preferred to peg Council Tax at its present level and invest an extra £4O per pupil in schools. Conservative leader Coun Don Jowett and Liberal Democrat leader Coun Dr Sandy Mearns both welcomed the pledgesbut said they hoped more could be spent on education ...

... important that Northumberland has a county voice that speaks for all and the needs of its children. Conservative leader Coun Don Jowett said villages were suffering unduly. it would be to the detriment of the rural areas and the shame of the county council ...

... best way to tackle discipline is to reduce class sizes and give pupils more individual attention.” Tor}' group leader Coun Don Jowett said he wel| comed the government’s proposals but added: “Teachers should be given better training in how to hglndlc badly ...