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- 2 December 2012
We went to press before the Bassetlaw Council planning meeting on Vesuvius, but I would be amazed if the proposal was turned down. Mind you I was gobsmacked last time....
- 25 November 2011
Whilst energy bills go through the roof, the pensioners winter fuel bonus is due to be cut. I am demanding that the Chancellor reverses this most sickening of cuts in...
- 18 November 2011
I met some of the many volunteers from the WRVS in Bassetlaw Hospital this week and what a job they do. They run the shop, the cafe, and a trolley...
- 11 November 2011
The District Auditor has been asked to look at the sell-off of Westwood Care Home which went for a scandalously low price, despite it being built entirely at the taxpayers...
- 4 November 2011
The Litton Tree pub in Retford has had 67 police visits for disturbances so far this year. I am sure there are a few other pubs in this area where...
- 28 October 2011
What can we do locally to counter the economic recession? Of course we will all be battered with the reduction in living standards and high prices for food and energy....
- 21 October 2011
When the world financial markets collapsed in 2008, three factors were crucial. Firstly, the investment banks who were playing with pension funds and huge amounts of borrowed money were presuming...
- 14 October 2011
The Governor of the Bank of England said this month that the world faces the biggest financial crisis since the war and perhaps ever. Over the next few weeks I...
- 7 October 2011
The sale of Westwood care home by the County Council creates further instability for residents who remain very opposed to this. The families are outraged at the price paid, which...
- 30 September 2011
An old plague is re-emerging across Bassetlaw: the spectre of mass youth unemployment. For a decade, though there were always a few out of work, it has been fairly easy...
- 23 September 2011
So, the County Council haven’t listened to local people and have gone ahead with the sale of Westwood Care Home. Six of the County’s care homes have been sold...
- 16 September 2011
The 999 emergency services ballot is underway today. You should soon receive a ballot paper which I encourage you to return as soon as possible. There are more streets that...
- 9 September 2001
You know that if a letter is too wordy then the writer has little to say. So it is with Peter Reading, Boss of the Hospital Trust. He picks up...
- 2 September 2011
Now is the time for you to have your say. Notts Police have cut police numbers and closed the Worksop police cells. Local police are up in arms against this...
- 26 August 2011
From the beginning I have backed the release of all the files relating to the Hillsborough football disaster and I am pleased that it may now be debated in Parliament...
- 19 August 201
Retford had its own mini riot inside a council owned cafe called DN22 which was smashed up by vandals over last weekend. Precisely who did it is being investigated, but...
- 12 August 2011
Bassetlaw Council is being pressured to greatly increase its number of houses, but there is no pressure to increase the number of jobs in this area. The whole planning system...
- 29 July 2011
It is far too early to celebrate victory over our battles to save Bassetlaw hospital, but we have some movement this week on Maternity Services. We need to see...
- 22 July 2011
While I have been in Parliament this week heavily involved in the scandal of News International and their appalling breeches of private security and personal grief, two major catastrophes have...
- 15 July 2011
Whilst they were answering questions from me and other MPs this week in Parliament, the Government refused to give guarantees about the future of residents in Southern Cross care homes....
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