Sarah Teather and Brent Liberal Democrats

Brent Central MP Sarah Teather has welcomed the announcement that Cricklewood will receive a £1.676m boost from the Mayor of London's Outer London Fund. The extra funding comes as a result of Cricklewood Improvement Programme's (CIP) successful bid and will contribute towards a series of events and projects to reinvigorate Cricklewood.

Sarah Teather, Liberal Democrat MP for Brent Central, has criticised the Labour-run Council's plans for alternative library provision while Willesden Green Library is closed for redevelopment. Current plans require the library to be closed for a minimum of 18 months - making the spring of 2014 the earliest possible date of opening.

Following revelations that the Brent Cross Cricklewood development is likely to shrink local Liberal Democrat MP for Brent Central Sarah Teather has today written to the Brent Cross Cricklewood developers, Barnet Council and Boris Johnson to demand that they make their plans for the Brent Cross Cricklewood development clear.

Sarah's office will close for the Christmas break on Thursday 22nd December. Sarah and her team will return to the new constituency office at 70 Walm Lane, Willesden Green, London, NW2 4RA on Monday 9th January.

If you want to pop in to the office to talk to one of Sarah's caseworkers in the New Year, the opening hours are:

Brent Central MP Sarah Teather has expressed her disappointment that the Court of Appeal has today refused to overturn the High Court judgement that allowed the Labour-run Brent Council to close half of the borough's libraries. The six libraries - Kensal Rise, Cricklewood, Neasden, Tokyngton, Barham Park and Preston - now face closure.

Brent Central MP Sarah Teather has this week announced that the Pupil Premium will be extended to cover any child that has been registered for Free School Meals in the past six years. In Brent, this means around 3,600 extra pupils will benefit from the Pupil Premium.

Across the country, more than half a million additional children will qualify for the Pupil Premium. The overall funding for the premium next year will be £1.25 billion and schools in Sarah's constituency will receive £3.7 million.

Seven-year old Lara Appowitzer, of Leopold Primary School, has been declared the winner of this year's competition to design a Christmas card for Brent Central's MP Sarah Teather.

To mark her achievement, Sarah today presented Lara with her £50 book token prize. Lara's winning design has been printed on to 20,000 Christmas cards which will be delivered to households across Brent throughout December. Lara also won a guided tour of Wembley Stadium for herself and her class.

The Liberal Democrats have selected local Wembley campaigner and former Councillor Afifa Pervez as their candidate for the Wembley Central by-election.

Afifa has 3 daughters and is a foster parent. She has lived in Wembley for over 33 years, went to school in Brent, and is a Governor at Oakington Manor Primary School. Afifa is a experienced local campaigner who has been fighting the Labour Council's decision to close half the Libraries in Brent, their hiking of parking charges by 300% and their cuts to street cleaning which have left Wembley streets dirty and overflowing with rubbish.