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This is my final Mail column before Christmas. Last Friday I attended a ceremony to commemorate the 97th anniversary of the bombardment of the Hartlepools....
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Hartlepool MP signs Holocaust Memorial Day Book of Commitment
Iain has signed the Holocaust memorial book as part of events to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The infamous...
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As I write this, I am in Westminster waiting to vote on the Welfare Reform Bill, which is a piece of proposed legislation put forward by...
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It is a sad fact of life that peoples health in Hartlepool is not as good as the rest of the country. We tend to suffer more from ill-health,...
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How will you spend your pay bonus this year? Chances are, in fact, that you wont have had a bonus, you probably havent had a pay increase...
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The town lost a great man at the end of last year when Ken Johnson, the former Hartlepool United player, died. This week was Kens funeral...
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I hope you have been able to have a peaceful and restful Christmas and wish you all the very best for the New Year. Looking back over the...
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I hope that youve had a good and relaxing Christmas and that you have been able to spend some time with your loved ones. I also hope...
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I hope youre more or less done for Christmas shopping by now. The speed at which Christmas has crept up on us has shocked me it only seems five minutes...
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Many people in Britain will say that this country doesnt make things anymore. Our past as the planets manufacturing hub, where Britain was really the workshop...
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced his assessment of the British economy in the House of Commons this week. In what is called the Autumn Statement,...
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There is a fine line between highlighting the problems in your area and making such a problem worse by drawing wider attention of the problem to a broader audience....
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I wrote about the forthcoming Armistice Day in my Hartlepool Mail column last week, but after a weekend of poignant and moving tributes to our Armed Forces,...
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Tomorrow is the 11th November, the eleventh day of the eleven month and for this year the eleventh year of the century. We wont see the date 11/11/11...
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Iain Wright MP has completed the 2011 Great North Run in aid of the Stroke Association. The Hartlepool MP joined his son Ben, 17, and thousands of others on...
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