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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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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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This is my final Mail column before Christmas. Last Friday I attended a ceremony to commemorate the 97th anniversary of the bombardment...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Iain Wright takes on Great North Run for stroke charity
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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It is important that Parliament is at the centre of national life and that people feel connected to the work that goes on in the House of Commons. To allow...
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Iain Wright MP, Shadow Minister for Competitiveness and Enterprise, has visited Rolls-Royces principal UK facility in Derby along with a cross-party group...
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On Monday evening there was one of those big Parliamentary spectacles for which the House of Commons is rightly famous across the world. The debate and vote...
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As you may imagine, I receive a huge amount of correspondence from constituents on all sorts of topics. People from the town come to my surgeries to discuss...
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Another week, another publication of jobless figures and yet again more depressing confirmation that growing numbers of people in our country and in our part...
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Iain Wright, MP for Hartlepool, has been promoted in Labour Party Leader Ed Milibands reshuffle of his shadow ministers. The towns MP has been made Shadow...
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