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Press Release
22 January 2008
Conservative candidate and schools campaigner Jesse Norman and local MP Bill Wiggin spent much of last week working hard behind the scenes for the withdrawal of the schools proposals.
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Press Release
21 January 2008
Edgbaston Parliamentary Candidate, Deirdre Alden, has launched a petition to save all the remaining Post Office branches in the Edgbaston Constituency.
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Press Release
18 January 2008
4,000 road traffic deaths and 100,000 injuries could be avoided if all cars in Europe were equipped with Electronic Stability Control [ESC].
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Press Release
14 January 2008
Inspired by her experiences in Rwanda in July last year, Maggie Throup, Solihull’s Conservative Parliamentary Candidate lead a round table discussion on International Development and Global Poverty.
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Press Release
14 January 2008
Leominster MP Bill Wiggin, who is seeking a meeting with the schools minister to raise concerns over Government policy towards education in rural areas and the low funding settlement for schools in Herefordshire.
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Press Release
14 January 2008
Harriett Baldwin, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for West Worcestershire showed her support this week for Upton-upon-Severn's efforts to become Worcestershire's first plastic bag-free town.
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Press Release
12 January 2008
Conservative Parliamentary Candidates praise hospital staff and management
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Press Release
9 January 2008
Yet another Labour Councillor has defected to the Conservatives - the eighteenth to do so since David Cameron became leader.
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Press Release
8 January 2008
Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Minister for Birmingham, today slammed the Prime Minister’s response over Birmingham’s New Street Station.
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Press Release
31 December 2007
I want 2008 to be the year in which we offer the people of this country the hope of real change, by setting out a clear and inspiring vision of what Britain will look like with a Conservative government.
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Press Release
30 December 2007
Harriett Baldwin, Conservative Party Parliamentary Candidate for West Worcestershire went on a carbon diet in 2007 to “Lose a Tonne” of weight.
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Press Release
30 December 2007
Parliamentary candidate Jesse Norman has expressed his high praise for the work of Herefordshire's emergency services.
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Press Release
20 December 2007
Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Minister for Birmingham, today expressed his outrage at the timing of the announcement, regarding emergency surgery at Birmingham’s City Hospital.
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Press Release
19 December 2007
In the spring the Post Office will decide which branches in Birmingham to axe in their latest round of closures.
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Press Release
18 December 2007
Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Minister for Birmingham, today threw down the gauntlet for Gordon Brown to deliver on the funding for New Street station.
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Press Release
18 December 2007
New analysis of Government statistics revealed this week that 809 criminals have been let out of prison before finishing their sentences across the West Midlands since June, under Labour’s controversial new early release scheme.
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Press Release
18 December 2007
Edgbaston's Parliamentary Candidate, Deirdre Alden, has reacted angrily to news that there will be no reprieve for emergency surgery facilities at Birmingham's City Hospital.
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Press Release
17 December 2007
The Government's independent Pitt Review into the floods last Summer has highlighted a long list of failings in preparedness by central government and local authorities in an Interim Report published today.
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Press Release
15 December 2007
Government plans to pay for councillors to be trained in how to use the social networking site Facebook have been slammed as a ‘waste of taxpayers money’ by Maggie Throup, the prospective Conservative MP for Solihull.
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Press Release
14 December 2007
Philip Dunne MP today voiced his support for the work of The Samaritans both locally and nationally.
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Press Release
13 December 2007
North Herefordshire MP Bill Wiggin arranged a tour of the Parliament for 4 pupils from Hereford Sixth Form College, who had accepted an invitation from him to come to Westminster to discuss their plans to hold a youth conference in Herefordshire.
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Press Release
12 December 2007
Dan Byles, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for North Warwickshire and Bedworth, today expressed his anger at the Government for its mishandling of the police pay crisis.
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Press Release
9 December 2007
Local residents in Herefordshire could find it easier to generate their own green energy under major new plans announced last week by the Conservatives.
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Press Release
8 December 2007
Harriett Baldwin, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for West Worcestershire this week announced that Cllr George Lord, leader of Worcestershire County Council would visit Tenbury on December 19th to see for himself the site of the proposed biomass plan
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Press Release
7 December 2007
Rugby Conservatives are carrying out regular monthly surveys. In November voter’s views were sought on the likely future of St Cross Hospital in Rugby.
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Press Release
4 December 2007
Michael Fabricant has written to the Department for Transport and the Secretary of State for Defence backing calls to re-open the Lichfield to Burton line for passenger traffic and to rebuild the railway halt at Alrewas.
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Press Release
4 December 2007
Shropshire's Conservative MPs met County Council leaders in Shirehall on Friday to discuss the funding shortfall for Shropshire's schools.
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Press Release
3 December 2007
New figures reveal that Herefordshire receives some of the lowest funding for cancer patients of any part of the country - the 7th lowest out of 155 Primary Care Trusts surveyed.
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Press Release
2 December 2007
Philip Bushill-Matthews, Conservative MEP for the West Midlands was in Pershore this weekend telling local people about his fight for Worcestershire to get a fair share of EU flood clean-up money.
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Press Release
28 November 2007
Harriett Baldwin spoke of her anger today about the closure of the Hereford and Worcester ambulance call centre, decided at a meeting today by Sir Graham Meldrum, Chairman of the West Midlands Ambulance Service Board and the other board members.
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Press Release
26 November 2007
Maggie Throup, Solihull’s Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman has revealed new data that shows the spending on cancer patients across Solihull is one of the lowest in the country.
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Press Release
26 November 2007
Local residents across Herefordshire will be given new powers to stop high council tax increases, under proposals announced by Conservatives.
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Press Release
26 November 2007
Government ministers have delayed the post office closure programme by one month in the run-up to next year's local elections as it is "highly sensitive" and a "political issue".
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Press Release
25 November 2007
The Government’s political fears lead to further delay and confusion for North Warwickshire sub-Postmasters and their customers
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Press Release
25 November 2007
Sir Michael Spicer, MP for West Worcestershire and Harriett Baldwin this week forwarded hundreds of individual letters from constituents to Sir Graham Meldrum, Chairman of the West Midlands Ambulance Service Board.
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Press Release
24 November 2007
Tamworth’s Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman, Christopher Pincher, has launched a campaign against parking charges at the Robert Peel hospital.
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Press Release
18 November 2007
Wychavon District council was praised by Peter Luff for what it is doing to honour our service men and women when he spoke to the Droitwich Spa branch of the Royal British Legion on Sunday 18th November 2007.
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Press Release
13 November 2007
"When in 1997 Labour MPs and candidates said a Labour Government would equalise school funding between different county local education authorities, it had huge resonance amongst Staffordshire and other parents" says Michael Fabricant.
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Press Release
13 November 2007
Robin Walker, Parliamentary Candidate for Worcester, today commented on government figures that showed the underfunding of the county becoming even worse over the next three years
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Press Release
13 November 2007
Reacting to the announcement of funding per pupil for Shropshire, Ludlow MP Philip Dunne said today: “Yet again Shropshire has been short changed by central Government when it comes to funding our schools.”
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Press Release
13 November 2007
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi heard from Lye residents, community representatives and council staff when she attended a meeting and dinner hosted by Stourbridge Conservative Candidate, Margot James, at the Conservative Office and Zafrans Restaurant in Lye last w
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Press Release
13 November 2007
Edgbaston Parliamentary Candidate, Cllr Deirdre Alden, attended the Diwali celebrations in Birmingham on Sunday evening November 11th as a guest of the Hindu Council of Birmingham.
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Press Release
13 November 2007
Caroline Spelman, MP for Meriden paid a visit to ‘Seeds of Hope’ and took to the dance floor to take part in the ‘Young at Heart’ sequence dancing session.
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Press Release
9 November 2007
Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Minister for Birmingham, has sent his best wishes to all members of the Hindu and Sikh communities as they celebrate Diwali - the traditional festival of lights.
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Press Release
9 November 2007
Shadow Minister for Birmingham, Andrew Mitchell MP: "The key question to Gordon Brown today on his brief visit to the West Midlands is where is the long overdue support for New Street Station?"
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Press Release
9 November 2007
"Result in Brookside is a major vote of no confidence in Labour," says Tom Biggins, Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman for Telford.
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Press Release
5 November 2007
Harriett Baldwin, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for West Worcestershire last week visited the Middle East with a delegation of Parliamentary Candidates from the UK.
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Press Release
5 November 2007
Maggie Throup, Solihull Conservative’s Parliamentary Spokesman has called for a better deal from the Government for our Armed Forces and their families.
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Press Release
1 November 2007
Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Minister for Birmingham comments on today’s demonstration in Birmingham by Conservative activists.
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Press Release
31 October 2007
Robin Walker, Parliamentary Candidate for Worcester, welcomed the Government’s decision today to withdraw its policy of taking 5% of reserves from schools with surpluses without regard to the plans they had for using them.
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