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Richard Burt, Parliamentary Candidate for West Worcestershire
Hands Off Local Print Jobs
Tue 23rd Feb 2010
Richard Burt has written to Malvern Hills District Council's Leader, Councillor Philip Grove, calling on him to stop the Council taking 'cut price' printing orders that undermine the work of local printing firms.
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Decision On DEFRA Flood Defence Grants For Tenbury Expected Soon
Thu 18th Feb 2010
Richard Burt, who last year warned local councils that they needed to pull together with other agencies to make any progress on flood defences, said that the town now faces a nervous wait to see if Tenbury would benefit from a bid for the next round of Defra grants to protect individual homes from flooding.
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Read "Decision On DEFRA Flood Defence Grants For Tenbury Expected Soon" in full.
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A Very Conservative Coup
Sun 14th Feb 2010
Richard Burt revealed today that the recent selection of a former Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank as the Conservative candidate for Bromsgrove has taken the total of influential Tory candidates from banking and finance backgrounds to 64, including seven in West Midlands constituencies.
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Read "A Very Conservative Coup" in full.
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Noisy Train Reversing Point To Stay
Tue 9th Feb 2010
Richard Burt said he was "deeply disappointed" as he finally admitted defeat in his efforts to get a turning point for high speed trains in Malvern Wells moved.
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Read "Noisy Train Reversing Point To Stay" in full.
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Northwest Link Road Routes Blight Village Homes
Sat 6th Feb 2010
Richard Burt today slammed Worcestershire County Council for publishing alternative routes for the City's Northwest Link Road on their website half way through their consultation process and naming houses close to the route that would suffer from noise pollution and other disturbances.
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Read "Northwest Link Road Routes Blight Village Homes" in full.
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Tories In Complete Disarray Over Housing And Transport Plans
Tue 2nd Feb 2010
Richard Burt today slammed the Conservatives over their handling of mass housing and transport plans, saying they were "in complete disarray" and had made "monumental blunders that could adversely affect our local communities for generations to come".
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Read "Tories In Complete Disarray Over Housing And Transport Plans" in full.
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Richard Vows To Help Hotel Staff In Their Fight For Fair Treatment
Thu 28th Jan 2010
Richard Burt visited staff locked in at the Foley Arms Hotel yesterday and vowed to help them in their fight to get their wages, redundancy money and holiday pay from the employers who summarily closed the Hotel without notice last Monday.
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Read "Richard Vows To Help Hotel Staff In Their Fight For Fair Treatment" in full.
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Richard To Meet With Foley Arms Staff
Tue 26th Jan 2010
Richard Burt will meet with staff at the Foley Arms in Malvern tomorrow, following news that the one of town's best known hotels has ceased trading. Richard said he was "shocked" to hear news of the sudden closure, which was relayed to staff by email after men arrived to board up the windows.
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Read "Richard To Meet With Foley Arms Staff" in full.
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Richard Burt To Question NHS Bosses On Head And Neck Cancer Surgery
Tue 19th Jan 2010
Richard Burt will question Worcestershire NHS bosses on the future of Head and Neck cancer surgery at Worcester Royal. The questions will be put at a meeting of the NHS Worcestershire Board due to take place Wychavon Civic Centre in Pershore tomorrow (20 January).
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Read "Richard Burt To Question NHS Bosses On Head And Neck Cancer Surgery" in full.
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Lib Dems Submit Housing Report To West Midlands Select Committee
Tue 12th Jan 2010
Richard Burt today submitted alternative proposals to mass housing development in South Worcestershire to an enquiry set up by the West Midlands Parliamentary Select Committee, scrutinising progress on the Regional Spatial Strategy.
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Read "Lib Dems Submit Housing Report To West Midlands Select Committee" in full.
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"Anyone who wants to pass laws in this country should pay this country's full taxes and not hide behind the special offshore status of non-doms. Non-doms have to tell the taxman that their first allegiance is to another country. No-one should be a British lawmaker whose first allegiance is not to Britain. "
Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary
www.libdems.org.uk - 2 March
"I think people are entitled to expect a sensible, stable government at a time when the country is facing very, very acute choices. We take what the markets are worrying about immensely seriously. We will not take any risk with the creditworthiness of the economy. "
Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Financial Times - 3 March
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