Candidates

Helen Heath - Carholme Ward

Helen Heath

Address: Rosebery Avenue, Lincoln
Profile: Helen has had a varied career. In London, she was a buyer for Harrods, a leader of her Residents' Association, and Southwark Amnesty. She has also managed economic development projects, and been self-employed. In Manchester, she ran the office of an MEP, was a city councillor, a caseworker for the local MP, and a school governor. She is a church warden, married to an NHS dentist, and is renovating a house in the West End. Liberal Democrat policies include restoring funding to the commons, allotments, parking, and police community support officers, cut by the Tories, devoting more resources to recycling, and ditching expensive Tory plans for weekly collection of landfill. We would also introduce some new ideas, like small grants to help community-based youth projects, and investigate ways of collecting recycling by disposable sack. We would deliver all this for an inflation busting 3.95 per cent council tax rise.
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Ryan Cullen - Park Ward

Ryan Cullen

Address: Hope Street, Lincoln
Profile: Ryan is a former city councillor for Park Ward. He works for Vodafone in Newark providing technical support to customers. Ryan previously worked for the Liberal Democrats at their head office in Westminster, before moving to Lincoln four years ago to be with his wife Heather. Ryan wants the residents of Park to be able to have green waste collected from their curbside like the rest of the city. If elected Ryan will fight for the people of Park Ward, who seem to have been forgotten by the current Conservative administration.
Phone: 01522 530690
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Heather Quinton - Abbey Ward

Heather Quinton

Address: Hope Street, Lincoln
Profile: Professional carer Heather grew up in the Spalding area and moved to Lincoln in 2000. She studied at Bishop Grosseteste College and the University of Lincoln. She was first elected to Lincoln City Council in 2004 and successfully represented Park ward for three years. As a large part of Park became Abbey ward last year, she hopes to continue her work there. Heather seeks to improve relations between different sections of the local community to achieve shared goals such as a clean, green and sociable living environment, safe roads and excellent housing for all. Heather is keen to support the neighbourhood renewal programmes in the Monks Road and Portland Street areas and ensure their long term sustainability.
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Charles Shaw - Castle Ward

Charles Shaw

Address: Severn Street, Lincoln
Profile: Charles is married with three children. He is vice-president of Lincoln City Liberal Democrats, general manager of an independent youth services company and holds professional qualifications in insurance and education. He is also a local lay minister at St Faith's Church. Liberal Democrats in Lincoln are concerned about the controlling nature of Government and local issues such as leisure and swimming facilities and youth provision. With growth of the city he feels adequate consultation is not being held on flood plans for the city. He believes that the City of Lincoln should be a self governing unitary authority able to concentrate its own decision making on what is best for Lincoln and represent itself at regional and government levels.
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Ross Pepper - Boultham Ward

Ross Pepper

Address: Roydon Grove, Lincoln
Profile: Ross was born and brought up in Lincoln. He attended St Peter and St Paul High School in the city and finished his International Relations degree at Lincoln University last May. He currently works as a sales and customer service assistant at Morrisons Supermarket in Lincoln. He is the current Chair of Lincoln Liberal Democrats. Living in Lincoln all his life, Ross has seen many changes for both the better and worse, but believes there should be a long term plan to improve this great and historic city. He believes the city has been let down by an inadequate and confusing waste and recycling collection service, and by the huge congestion problem that faces the city. He passionately believes that the residents of Boultham should be put first as they seem to have been forgotten by both their Labour councillors and the current Conservative Administration. He will put the voices and concerns of the residents of Boultham Ward to the fore.
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Daphne Shaw - Minster Ward

Address: Severn Street, Lincoln
Profile: Daphne is married with three children now all of voting age, and is the grand-daughter of former Lincoln City Mayor, Sheriff and Freeman, the late Councillor Thomas Taylor. She is a professional youth and community worker working as a young peoples' personal adviser and a politics and history graduate of Manchester University. She believes passionately in the Liberal Democrats policies against ID Cards and the obvious erosion of real freedoms in society. An opponent of the Gulf War but a strong supporter of our servicemen and the hard task they are faced with, she believes that we need to take the tough decisions on human rights issues rather than the convenient ones.
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George Richardson (Tony) - Birchwood Ward

Address: Woodland Avenue, Skellingthorpe
Profile: I am an engineer living in the Lincoln area with my wife and daughter, work along Doddington Road and have nine years council experience. As a Liberal Democrat, I believe in good public transport, conservation and policies that protect the environment. To this end, I support the Liberal Democrat policies being proposed by candidates across the city in this election. I am a strong believer in recycling, and would support extensions such as green waste collections where this is not currently available, I support recycling centres such as bottle banks, but these must be emptied regularly, which has not always happened in the past. I have concerns regarding the scale of the proposed Swanpool development, particularly where this involves building on flood plains. This is an issue where we should listen to the experts at the Environment Agency. I support development where appropriate, particularly affordable housing to assist first-time buyers.

Stephen Morgan - Glebe Ward

Stephen Morgan

Address: Nelthorpe Street, Lincoln
Profile: Stephen is twenty-one years-old, originally from Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire and has lived in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, until he moved to Lincoln in September 2005. Stephen is in his final year at the University of Lincoln for a Bachelors Degree in politics. Stephen joined the Liberal Democrats in 2005, as a result of the party's position on national issues, such as the war in Iraq, and student tuition fees. Since he joined the party, Stephen has been actively involved with the Liberal Democrats in Lincoln. If elected, Stephen would work to improve the public transport within the city to help reduce congestion. Stephen would also work hard to improve all services that are available to the people living in Glebe ward, and to campaign for better facilities overall for the city.
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Jenny Shaw - Moorland Ward

Jenny Shaw

Address: Severn Street, Lincoln
Profile: Jenny is a former student of Lincoln Christ Hospital School, Lampeter and The University of the West of England. She stood in Moorland Ward last year and recognises the need for a balance of young and older councillors in each ward in the City. With recent experience of the issues facing younger voters in Lincoln, Jenny would like to see increasing numbers of younger voters influencing the result. This means people recognising that if they do not go to vote they still influence the result by their absence. Jenny Shaw believes that all parties should do more to face the real threat of flooding in Lincoln.

Lynn Pepper - Hartsholme Ward

Lynn Pepper

Address: Roydon Grove, Lincoln
Occupation: Sales Assistant
Profile: Lynn was born in Boston, before moving to Lincoln in 1976 after meeting her future husband, Denis, who she married in 1980. She has a son, Ross, who was born in 1986. She currently works at Sainsbury's Supermarket on Tritton Road in Lincoln as a sales assistant and food sampler. Lynn believes the environment is the key issue in today's world. She would like to see an enhancement of the city council doorstep waste and recycling collection service to help improve this world for the future. She also believes that Lincoln is very congested and would like to see further developments to reduce the traffic in the city, and would push for this if elected. Lynn believes it is important for the residents of Hartsholme to be put first.