It is with great sadness that Wokingham Liberal Democrats have learned that former party campaigner and Evendons Ward Councillor Helen Power, lost her long battle with cancer on Saturday 29th August.

Helen was part of the team that started the local Lib Dem revival on the Borough Council, winning her seat in Evendons Ward on a momentous night in May 2018. Tragically it was just 8 months later that Helen would have to resign as a Counsellor after undergoing what Helen described as 'brutal' chemotherapy treatment and being diagnosed with incurable cancer.

We were delighted to see that so many people turned up for the Black Lives Matter protest in Wokingham at the weekend. We were not able to join them, as we were all self-isolating or shielding due to Covid-19. There will be many others who were in our situation, and the crowd would have been even bigger if everyone who wanted to be there had been able to go.

It is with great sadness that Wokingham Liberal Democrats have learned that former party campaigner and Evendons Ward Councillor Helen Power, lost her long battle with cancer on Saturday 29th August.

Helen was part of the team that started the local Lib Dem revival on the Borough Council, winning her seat in Evendons Ward on a momentous night in May 2018. Tragically it was just 8 months later that Helen would have to resign as a Counsellor after undergoing what Helen described as 'brutal' chemotherapy treatment and being diagnosed with incurable cancer.

Wokingham Liberal Democrats proudly attended the Wokingham Black Lives Matter event in Elms Field on Saturday.

There is unequivocal evidence that terror is being perpetrated by the Chinese state against the Uighurs Muslims in the Xinjiang region of northwest China. This includes reports that concentration camps have been set up for the mass internment and 're-education' of up to a million Uighurs Muslims, along with reports of torture and coercion in these camps. The Uighurs also face harsh religious and cultural restrictions, for example - facial hair being too long, not being allowed to fast in Ramadan, and prohibitions on speaking the Uyghur language in public spaces.

The Liberal Democrat group on Wokingham Borough Council are angry that the decision of investing in polypropylene recycling sacks has been upheld despite the obvious lack of due diligence and disregard for good financial management. Action on tackling wet waste has been unnecessarily delayed due to the poor financial management of taxpayers money by this Conservative administration. The delay of not having provided a full business case in July when funding was approved has cost taxpayers £100k according to estimates by the Conservative administration.