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Veteran Badge PresentationWigan 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 John Ward of Lowton and Mr Donald Farrington of Leigh... |
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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 ...
Bristol Needs Affordable Public Transport
The rising cost of bus and rail fares is becoming an inescapable fact of life for people in Bristol.Our region needs an Integrated Transport Authority (ITA) that will able to set affordable fares,......
Jim Murphy MP attends Holocaust Memorial Day event in Eastwood
Jim interviews Eastwood High pupils Jack Wylie and Gemma Sichi, and finds out why they wanted to visit Auschwitz and what they took away from their visit....
Jim Murphy MP supports the International Diabetes Federation in raising awareness of diabetes in Parliament
Jim joined volunteers from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), Bayer and Novo Nordisk to raise awareness of the increasing prevalence of diabetes in the UK. Jim attended a diabetes testing......
News : Gerry visits Lidget Green Children’s Centre
Gerry recently visited Lidget Green Children’s Centre, based at Lidget Green Primary School, which has been used by over 600 families since it opened three years ago. ...
