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A constituent’s vision of Brockwell ParkChuka’s constituent Clare Skilbeck has sent Chuka this copy of the poster she produced maping Brockwell Park. Clare recently met Chuka at a coffee afternoon he held at the St. Mathew’s Community Centre, and promised to send the poster. The map’s remarkable detail shows Brockwell Park as it is enjoyed by hundreds of local residents,... |
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WILLIAM BAIN MP: CABLE FAILS TO GIVE COMMITMENT ON GREEN INVESTMENT BANK
William Bain MP urged the Government to press ahead with plans to create a fully-capitalised Green Investment Bank to drive investment in green collar jobs during Business, Innovation and Skills questions on Thursday morning, with a leaked Treasury-BIS document raising question marks about the Government’s...
‘Reject your six-figure bonuses’, Harris tells Network Rail
Network Rail bosses cannot justify plans to award its senior directors six-figure bonuses, Tom Harris has told the House of Commons.He revealed that the company’s chief executive and its directors were in line for annual bonuses equivalent to 60 per cent of their annual salaries. That would mean that...
Chi supports the charity Beating Bowel Cancer
Chi has pledged to support the national charity Beating Bowel Cancer to save lives from the UK’s second biggest cancer killer. Chi said: “Sadly in Newcastle upon Tyne Central, more people are diagnosed with bowel cancer and more people die from the disease than the national average*. “One...
Veteran Badge Presentation
Wigan Evening Post 30th JanOne of the best parts of being a local MP is the chance to meet and say thank you to local people who have contributed to their country and local community through service in HM Armed Forces.I recently had the honour of presenting HM Armed Forces Veteran Lapel Badges to Mr...
Citysave UK Credit Union
Gisela visited the Citysave Credit Union in Waterloo Street to learn more about the benefits of saving with a credit union. Credit unions provide a savings and loan service to its members. Citysave accepts applications for membership from Birmingham residents and Birmingham workers. Credit unions...
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 concentration camp is one of the sites of the largest mass murder in history, where 6 million Jews and others classed as undesirable by the Nazis were...
Mail Column
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 the Government to change provision on benefits. How the country provides benefits for people considered to need help, the level of those benefits and for how...
The challenge for the centre-left
First published in the New Statesman Labour needs comradely and serious debate. So it should be with the former deputy leader Roy Hattersley’s recent article (with Kevin Hickson) “In praise of social democracy” for the Political Quarterly. Roy has been pretty consistent in his views...
Toby Perkins MP promotes Chance to be Chancellor scheme for young people in Chesterfield
Young people in Chesterfield given the Chance to be Chancellor and share their opinions on the Youth Budget 2012 Toby Perkins is supporting the launch of Chance to be Chancellor 2012 and is calling on schools and young people in Chesterfield to take up in the challenge to learn about, and share their...
Police Cuts Hit North Wales Hard – Hanson
12.10 pm Mr David Hanson (Delyn) (Lab): I welcome you to the Chair, Mr Leigh, and I thank the previous Chair, Mr Crausby, for his chairmanship in the early part of the debate. I also pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Clwyd South (Susan Elan Jones). She has raised an important issue and generated...
Chance to be Chancellor 2012
Gisela Stuart is supporting the launch of Chance to be Chancellor 2012 and is calling on schools and young people in Birmingham, Edgbaston to take up the challenge to learn about, and share their opinions on, Budget 2012. Run by the Citizenship Foundation, in partnership with Aviva, Chance to be...
Anne Frank
Last week I spoke at the annual fundraising lunch of the Anne Frank Trust – a remarkable organisation that fights against prejudice and intolerance in modern Britain by using the vivid story of Anne Frank whose young life was snuffed out by the Nazis who sent her to Bergen Belsen concentration...
London 2012 Recruitment Event
Meg is keen to let constituent know about a recruitment event being held by the University of East London. The details are as follows 7 February 10am -3pm Stadium Suite, John Lewis 3rd Floor, Westfield Stratford City, Stratford, E15 The University of East London’s invite says as follows: “We...
International Women’s Day Events 2012
Events in celebration of Women are taking place weekly in the run up to International Women’s Day. Search for International Women’s Day events by county. http://www.internationalwomensday.com/search.asp?country=221 ...
