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- Car Clamping Company Operating in Retford
John Mann is keen that local residents are aware of a company operating a car clamping business that has been operating around Retford's town centre. Midlands Clamping Company has been clamping cars that are parked on private land. Some drivers have been using the places for years and have been shocked to return to their cars to find them clamped. People who have had their cars clamped have found that Midlands Clamping Company are charging £125 to release the car and will only accept cash saying that their card machine is broken. Their website for making appeals does not work...
- Summer Holidays are Here.....and Bassetlaw Closes
This summer holiday sees both Notts County Council and Bassetlaw District Council have set themselves on collision course with young people and their parents. Notts County Council are closing Worksop Library from 2nd August until 20th September when they will open the new library and Bassetlaw District Council is withdrawing its free swimming scheme at the end of this week. Bassetlaw's MP John Mann is shocked at the lack of vision and foresight being shown by both councils, commenting "this is bonkers, why are they closing these services at the start of the summer holidays? Young people need activities and...
- Results of Bassetlaw's Labour Leadership Primary Announced
Bassetlaw Constituency Labour Party Rod Pickford Secretary, The Labour Hall, New St, Retford. DN22 6EG Bassetlaw Labour Party decided to consult members and Labour voters to decide which candidate for the Labour Leadership should be nominated by Bassetlaw Labour Party. The Party distributed ballot papers to members and known Labour voters via post (both by Royal Mail and by hand delivery) and on John Mann's website. There was a 32% return. The ballot was by single transferable vote. The result is as follows:- Round D Abbott E Ball A Burnham D Miliband E...
- John Will be on Politics Show on Sunday Tackling the New Policy on Prisons
John Mann will be on the Politics Show (East Midlands) this Sunday talking about the Justice Minister, Ken Clarke's recent proposal to reduce prison numbers which has since gained a consensus of support from Tories, Lib Dems and Ed Miliband, would be Labour leader. John will be arguing that they are all missing the point. He said that "nobody wants more people in prison and lots more needs to be done to make prison work in rehabilitating offenders. By artificially limiting prison numbers we wave a white flag to drug dealers, wife beaters and shop-lifters who are precisely those people...
- 31st July Deadline for Miners Complaints
John Mann, MP for Bassetlaw has today issued a warning that the ability to recover money from double charging solicitors who took fees for handling miners compensation claims is now time limited. The Legal Complaints Service, the body that formally investigates complaints about solicitors is being abolished to be replaced with the Office for Legal Complaints. The new organisation has made no commitment to continue with the recovery of fees for the thousands of miners and their families who have lost out and the unit that was especially set up by the Legal Complaints Service to manage these complaints will...
- John Mann MP Accuses Ken Clarke of Waving White Flag of Surrender at the Drug Dealers
John Mann, MP for Bassetlaw has today heavily criticised Minister for Justice, Ken Clarke on his plans for the future of prisons, saying "The Tories went into the election attacking early prison release. We now know that this will no longer be an issue as Clarke and the Tories will not be putting these convicted burglars and robbers into prison in the first place". John Mann added "This fundamentally weakens the battle against hard drugs and will leave pensioners in particular vulnerable to repeat offenders who steal small amounts of money for drugs but at huge emotional cost to the...
- John Mann Back on Influential Treasury Select Committee
Recent Parliamentary elections have seen John Mann elected back onto the prestigious Treasury Select Committee. This is an influential committee that holds the Government, Bankers and UK industry to account on their economic policies and activities. Modernisation of Parliamentary practices has seen a rule change this term. MP's are no longer selected by the Whips for positions on the Parliamentary committees and they have to now put themselves forward for election by their fellow MP's. Since the General Election Labour are entitled to five places on the Treasury Select committee. Nine Labour MP's were nominated and following the election last...
- MP Issues Warning On Scam Company
Bassetlaw residents are being phoned up by an organisation calling themselves Tucan who are claiming that they represent the Government. They are advising people that they have paid too much interest on their credit cards and loans and they are able to recover this if they pay them an up front fee of £250. This organisation sounds very convincing on the phone and research on the internet shows that many people from across the country have been fooled by Tucan and have been unable to get their money refunded. Commenting on this latest scam, John Mann said "this is not...
- John Mann MP Raises Concerns Over Miners Action Group
A member of the public from the North East has contacted John Mann MP seeking his views regarding a mailshot that he had recently received from a newly formed claims handling organisation called Miners Action Group. He contacted John Mann, who is the Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw because the letter included a quote from John when he was raising concerns about the under-settlement of miners compensation claims. John Mann reacted with anger to the letter because the quote was used without his permission and gives the reader the wrong impression that he is endorsing the work of The Miners...
- MPs Search for the Best South Asian Restaurant in Britain
The 2010 search is on for the best South Asian restaurant in the country. The winning restaurant will receive the Tiffin Cup which is awarded every year by the Tiffin Club of MP's. This competition is now in its fifth year and MP's are being asked to nominate a local South Asian restaurant. John Mann needs Bassetlaw residents help with this and is asking them to nominate their favourite local South Asian restaurant and he will put forward the one receiving the most nominations to be judged for the Tiffin Cup. The aim of the competition is not only to...
- John Mann Calls on Brown to Step Down
Bassetlaw MP, John Mann is arguing that Labour will only have any influence in the outcome of the current negotiations if Gordon Brown agrees to step down as Leader of the Labour Party. Mann said "On the doorstep, throughout the election campaign I found that there was a lot of support for Labour's approach on the economy, health and education, but there was little support for Gordon Brown to be Prime Minister. Literally, thousands of voters told me that they were happy to vote for me, but it was not a vote for Gordon Brown. Many others stated that they...
- John Mann re-elected MP for Bassetlaw
 John Mann has been re-elected as the Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw.
The results, announced around 4am on Friday 7th May 2010, are: Name Party Votes % John Mann Labour 25,018 50.5 Keith Girling Conservative 16,803 33.9 David Dobbie Liberal Democrat 5,570 11.2 Andrea Hamilton UK Independence Party 1,779 3.6 Grahame Whithurst Independent 407 0.8 Local Council votes are counted on Friday afternoon.
Photo: Parliamentary Election Results are announced in Bassetlaw Arena 7 May 2010...
- Prescott Express comes to Bassetlaw
 John Prescott, former Deputy Prime Minister, visited Bassetlaw yesterday to boost supporters, campaign for John Mann and help council candidates in their effort to take Bassetlaw District Council out of the hands of the Conservatives. Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer 02 May 2010...
- Charlie the Parrot is Canvassing for Labour’s John Mann
 Bassetlaw's Labour Candidate, John Mann has won the support of Charlie the Parrot who is telling all and sundry to "vote Mann", "vote John Mann". Charlie's owner is Josie Potts and she is a fervent Labour and John Mann supporter. At the start of the General Election campaign Josie volunteered to telephone canvass local residents from her home. Unbeknown to Josie her parrot was listening to every word and very quickly began to call out "vote Mann", "vote John Mann". John Mann has been to meet Charlie to thank him for his support and was met with a lively...
- Happy Birthday Tigers
Today (Thursday 22nd April) is the first Birthday of the 1861 Tigers Trust - the group formed last year to help save Worksop Tigers Football Club. John said "people have spoken in huge numbers - we want to get Worksop's football team back into Worksop. We've still got a tough fight with the Council, but things are looking brighter." John wants to see further changes to the way all football clubs are governed, including: Changing the way football is governed so that new owners face tougher tests to prove they are fit to run clubs
Giving Registered Supporters' Trusts more opportunities...
- How big will the Cinema be?
 Reports are emerging that the long-promised cinema may be tiny - as few as fifty seats to a screen.
The Conservative controlled Council promised to build a cinema five years ago. Since then there have been endless delays: Originally linked to the controversial new Tesco, the council backtracked and announced the new supermarket could go ahead without the cinema
The District Auditor has also revealed that some of the millions put aside for building the cinema have been used to plug the hole left by their unwise investment in the collapsed Icelandic banks. Sources have told John that tender document contains...
- Mann clears up Council's Mess
 John Mann has helped residents by clearing up a fly tip after Conservative controlled Bassetlaw Council failed to act again.
John Mann organised a team of volunteers to clear away the cuttings and rubbish that had been dumped on the car park in Holdenby Close, Retford. He said "I often have to act where the Council have failed. Whether it's building a cinema in Worksop or clearing rubbish from the streets in Retford, it seems they hardly do anything without pressure being put on them". As MP, John ran one of the busiest offices in the country, dealing with issues...
- Olympian discusses future of Bassetlaw athletics with John Mann
 John Mann met this week with Olympic High Jumper Brendan Reilly to discuss the future of Athletics in Bassetlaw. They met at Manton Club, just one of the sites that have received Government and Lottery money over recent years to expand athletics provision. John said "having a real-life Olympian supporting improvements in Bassetlaw is fantastic and will help us fight for to go further and get better sport facilities across our towns and villages." "Every young person should have the chance to get involved in sport." "We need honest MP's, no matter what the affiliation. You have my vote...
- Tireless Bereavement Campaigner Achieves Landmark Success
 When the case of Amy Jeffrey came to John Mann MP's attention in the spring of 2009, it was clear that a gap in the law unfairly penalised and unjustly left widowed students ineligible to claim a Funeral Payment from the Social Fund. Last spring, confronted with the tragic loss of her husband Rowland, Amy, a student nurse in her mid 20s, realised that she was unfairly penalised by the law, unable to receive a Funeral Payment as a young widowed student. Supported by her family, Amy has since taken a courageous stance to pressurise the Department for...
- EUREKA EAST COAST TIMETABLE GETS RETFORD’S COMMUTERS BACK ON TRACK
 John Mann MP welcomes East Coast's proposed Eureka timetable, which threatened to cut vital rush-hour services from Retford to London and Leeds and has been amended this week. Commuters ran the risk of being severely hindered by reduced services departing from Retford Station during the morning and evening rush-hour periods. However, having taken the issue to the Minister for Trains, Chris Mole MP, and following meetings with East Coast trains, Mr Mann has secured the agreement of East Coast Mainline to reinsert a 08:30 morning service to London as well as two returning evening trains departing from Kings Cross Station...
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