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 Nov 6 - Flooding in Ambaston |
Mark is to urge action to stop flooding at a Derbyshire village. For the past three years, Mark has been campaigning to get the Environment Agency to move forward with creating more&nb...
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| Sept 15 - Mark donates books |
Mark is to donate 10 books to Swadlincote library as well as meet local youngsters to talk about reading and being an MP. Mark was given the books by the Reading Agency to promote the Summer Re...
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| Aug 26 - Mark supports landlords struggling to let business unit |
Mark has written to a minister to try to help landlords that are being forced to pay out business rates on empty properties despite the current economic climate Mark has asked John Healey...
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| July 29 - Mark urges council to address fuel poverty |
Mark is encouraging South Derbyshire District Council to work with an energy charity to help mobile home owners. Mark has held two meeting with residents from two mobile home parks - Greenacre Park...
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| July 28 - Mark to show off baking skills |
Mark is preparing to bake some home-made cakes for a family coffee morning. Mark is urging parents of primary school children to attend the event later this year. T...
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| July 18 - Mark objects to phone box plans |
Mark has written to BT protesting at the proposed closure of some public payphones in South Derbyshire. BT is consulting on its plans to remove 18 public payphones within the distric...
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| July 15 - Meeting organised for mobile home owners |
Mark is to meet with residents of a South Derbyshire mobile home park on Friday (July 18) to discuss fuel poverty. People living in the Ninelands Residential Park in Hartshorne and...
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| July 9 - Mark campaigns for free-access cash machines |
Mark is sending letters to convenience stores in his constituency asking for support for his campaign to increase the number of free-to-use machines there. For the past year, Mark has been involv...
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| April 29 - Mark invites children to dinner |
Mark is staging another school dinners' event at Newhall Junior Community School on May 16. The after-school event is aimed at encouraging parents and their children to opt for school lunc...
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| March 18 - Rebuilding Swadlincote schools delayed. |
Building Schools for the Future - the project to rebuild secondary schools - has been delayed for Swadlincote. Derbyshire County Council had proposed to use the £44m to close William Allitt ...
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| March 11 - Porton Down veteran calls for compensation |
A former National Service veteran has told how he was misled into taking part in nerve gas tests at Porton Down military research centre. Derek Buswell (76), of Shelton Lock, ...
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| January 30 - Meeting with Jack Straw |
THE mother of a man who died in prison from dehydration has shown Lord Chancellor Jack Straw photographs of her son's dead body. Mark arranged the meeting between Mr Straw and Pamela Green, who...
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| December 18 - Mark invites pupils to try school dinners |
Mark is hosting a school dinners' event at Hilton Primary School on January 19. One of Mark's priorities for the next year is to encourage children to eat healthily. All school meals provided b...
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| November 15 - Mark opposes train service cut at Willington |
Mark has written to Stagecoach to complain about proposals to cut the London service from Willington Station. At a meeting with the train operator last month, Mark was told that ...
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| Pupils to design Christmas cards |
Schoolchildren will design the Christmas cards sent by Mark to his constituents this year. The competition has been organised and sponsored by garden centre Planters at Bretby who has asked 20 ...
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| October 15 - Inquiry begins into nuclear tests |
Mark will tomorrow (Tues, Oct 16) make a statement at an inquiry into the medical effects of nuclear tests in the 50s. A parliamentary inquiry has begun into British nuclear tests in the South ...
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| October 1 - Mark opposing post office closure plans |
Mark will fight plans to shut three post offices in South Derbyshire . These proposals were announced today. It was revealed in May that 2,500 post offices were to be shut by 2009 because ...
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| October 1 - Bird sanctuary to be opened in Findern |
A £6,400 bird sanctuary created by a group of villagers is to be officially opened by Mark next Friday (Oct 5) Findern Footpaths Group, which was set up in 1997 to look after seven miles of publ...
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| September 24 - Mark to join Chief Constable on charity walk |
Mark is to join Chief Constable David Coleman during his charity walk. Mr Coleman, who retires this year, intends to walk more than 150 miles to celebrate the 150th ann...
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| September 19 - Mark helps to recover miners' cash |
Around 50 people attended a meeting to help sick miners and their families to recover cash wrongly deducted from their compensation pay-outs. Mark, who is chairman of the Coal Health...
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Mark is sending letters to convenience stores in his constituency asking for support for his campaign to increase the number of free-to-use machines there. For the past year, Mark has been involv...