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| What’s New ?... | |
| January ’12 | Swan Tescos Open Recruitment starts 9 January
For full details see Swan tescos Development Latest. or [B’ham Yardley] >> [Local Issues] to the left |
| November ’11 | John shows support for Climate Week 2012
For full details see the Climate Week page or use the campaign button to the right ==> |
| National Campaigns Page launched
For full details see the National Campaigns page or [National Issues] >> [National Campaigns] to the left | |
Whole Government departments should be moved out of London and relocated to cities such as Birmingham, MPs are insisting. [.. ..] MPs including Steve McCabe (Lab Selly Oak), Richard Burden (Lab Northfield), Ian Austin (Lab Dudley North) and John Hemming (Lib Dem Yardley) are urging the Government to revive plans to move thousands of civil service jobs out of the capital. |  |
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The BBC faced a licence-fee backlash last night from TV regions over its controversial £500million move to MediaCity in Salford. [.. ..]Birmingham Yardley MP John Hemming said: "The BBC Trust is playing with fire in ignoring the concerns of 11 million Midland licence-fee payers. People are very unhappy about this. The BBC is a publicly-funded body which should support the economy across the country in a fair way. "The BBC has a duty to fund regional jobs in a proportionate level to the revenue raised in each region." | |
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A Stechford family’s three-week trip to Pakistan ended in tragedy after the husband of Rubana Mukhtar, Azhar Iqbal, was shot and killed in front of her by two gunmen. [.. ..]... John Hemming has outwardly called the attack "horrendous" and plans to support Rubana Mukhtar and her family where possible saying: "There are things that can be done". | |
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The Government decision on the future of the controversial £17 billion High-Speed Rail link between London and Birmingham is set to be announced next week, it has emerged. [.. ..]Meanwhile, in a letter to the Birmingham Mail, Birmingham MPs and council leaders threw their weight behind the High-Speed Rail project. The letter, signed by Yardley MP John Hemming, Perry Barr MP Khalid Mahmood, Edgbaston MP Gisela Stuart, Redditch MP Karen Lumley, Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby and chief executive Stephen Hughes, called for construction to begin as soon as possible. | |
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Midland MP John Hemming has thrown his weight behind the campaign to unlock a £23 million fund for the benefit of former Longbridge workers. Mr Hemming has written to both Business Secretary Vince Cable and MG Rover administrators PWC over millions of pounds raised from the assets of Longbridge following MG Rover’s £1 billion plus collapse in April 2005. | |
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