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Monthly Police Meetings in Spennells
Thu 29th Apr 2010
Hearing people's concerns about anti-social behaviour and criminal damage issues on Spennells, David Ross and Councillors Helen and Peter Dyke have contacted the Local Policing Team to request regular monthly meetings with them.
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Education
Thu 29th Apr 2010
Britain's historic success was borne out of innovation, artistry and skill. To climb out of our massive debt and stay out we need a future workforce that can invent and manufacture things that compete with the best the rest of the world can offer. Crucially, we need young people to feel motivated to excel. That cannot come from an educational environment where league tables trump real learning or where degrees are downgraded as Peter Mandelson suggests or students saddled with huge debt as Conservatives and Labour policies have ensured. They need an education way beyond that which I received at King Charles I School in the 1970s.
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Health
Fri 23rd Apr 2010
The news that NHS executives have received double the pay rises of nurses since 2008 exemplify the failing of a "market" driven health service. The very principle of the NHS is based on fairness for all. Instead, it's been squeezed between the Tory dogma of market efficiency and obsessive central control from Labour. Neither has made our Health Service more healthy; just more expensive.
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Clegg Scores Second Win in Party Leaders Debate
Fri 23rd Apr 2010
An average of five polls conducted immediately after the Sky TV Leaders Election debate on Thursday night put Nick Clegg as the winner, with all instant polls showing him ahead of Gordon Brown. After the Foreign Affairs-led debate from Bristol dominated by issues like Iraq, immigration and climate change, Nick Clegg won 3 of the 5 polls on the night, building on his position after the first debate.
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| Wyre Forest General Election Result |
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Turnout: 50864 (67%)
36.9%
Conservative: 18793 (+7.8%)
31.7%
Kidderminster Hospital And Health Concern: 16115 (−6.9%)
14.3%
Labour: 7298 (−8.2%)
11.9%
Liberal Democrats: 6040 (+10.6%)
View the results in detail.
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| Quotes of the Week |
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"People have been talking about Lords reform for over a century. The time for talk is now over. "
Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister
Debate of Constitutional Reform, The Independent - 8 June
"Two welcome announcements have come from David Cameron and Nick Clegg in as many days. First, there are going to be major cuts in public spending. Second, they're going to be done with some finesse. "
Eamonn Butler, Director of the Adam Smith Institute
Guardian - 9 June
"The wasteful, bureaucratic and intrusive ID card scheme represents everything that has been wrong with government in recent years. By taking swift action to scrap it, we are making it clear that this government won't sacrifice people's liberty for the sake of Ministers' pet projects. "
Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister
Comment on the announcement that ID cards are to be scrapped for British citizens within 100 days - 27 May
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