It was agreed to support the 10:10 Carbon Reduction Campaign and to prioritise specific projects from the Nottingham Declaration Action Plan which apply to both, at a meeting of Cabinet on 2nd March.

I recently enjoyed my only official mayoral Town Twinning visit when my wife Marion and I travelled to Fano, Italy for a weekend together. The highlight was their Lent Carnival with its magnificent floats from which large amounts of sweets were thrown into the 50,000 crowd.

St Albans City and District Council is formulating a strategy for improving the delivery of key services during periods of severe winter weather in order to minimise any future disruption to their provision.

St Albans Local Strategic Partnership brings local organisations together to work together. The Partnership is hosting a Listening to Carers Day for unpaid family carers who live in St Albans District. This is the chance for people who look after someone at home who is frail, ill or disabled to meet other people in the same position, to share experiences and to speak up about the issues that are most important to them.

St Albans City and District Council is calling on residents to get together to help clean up their local area during annual Litter Pick Week (20th March – 28th March 2010).

St Albans City and District Council’s corporate plan for 2010 to 2013, setting out its focus for the next three years and how it is going to achieve its priorities for local residents, was agreed by Cabinet on 2 February 2010 and will be recommended to Council for approval. Council will consider the plan on 24 February 2010 alongside the budget.

A bogus telephone caller, posing as a representative of St Albans City and District Council is telling residents they are due a Council Tax refund and then asking for their bank details. The caller is not working on behalf of the Council and residents should not give out their personal bank details to them.