Local MP Tim Farron is urging Prime Minister Gordon Brown to force the buyers for multinational supermarkets to pay a fair price for meat in light of the current concerns over foot and mouth. As it stands, farmers are permitted to take their animals to slaughter, but are now being forced to accept a price well below what they would normally accept because they are not permitted to return with the animals.
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The Royal and Ancient has confirmed Royal St George's in Sandwich, Kent as the venue for the 2011 Open Championship - one of Golf's most prestigious competitions. The last time the Open was held at Royal St George's in 2003, when the tournament was won by American Ben Curtis, proved to be a major boost to local tourism and hotels across Kent including Folkestone & Hythe.
Gordon Brown yesterday used his first conference speech as Labour party leader to make a direct appeal to the conservative instincts of middle Britain, vowing to create an aspirational society based on the foundations of duty, respect and responsibility. In an unusually personal hour-long speech, with no reference to his Conservative or Liberal Democrat opponents or the possibility of an imminent general election,
Research by Rochdale Liberal Democrats has revealed that nearly £100,000 of local Council Tax payers money was spent on outside consultants by Labour in Rochdale between January 2001 and September 2002. The cash was spent on research carried out by Vision 21, a Director of the company is Labour's Parliamentary Candidate, Simon Danczuk. Labour controlled the council at the time with 31 Councillors and were led by former Councillor Peter Roberts, with Councillor Allen Brett (Mr Danczuk's Agent) as Deputy Leader.
Chesterfield MP, Paul Holmes MP spent today (Tuesday 25th September) visiting the HMRC offices at Markham House and Dents Chamber. These offices have been provisionally selected by the Government for closure. It is expected that the final decision will be announced sometime between the 8th and the18th October.
Lewes MP Norman Baker has today renewed his calls for a clear government strategy to deal with the threat of bluetongue after government vets confirmed the first UK case of the disease at a farm in Suffolk.
