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 April 29 - Mark invites children to dinner |
Mark is staging another school dinners' event at NewhallJunior Community School on May 16. The after-school event is aimed at encouraging parents andtheir children to opt for school lunches ...
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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 and ...
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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, volunt...
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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, whose s...
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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 by De...
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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 the ...
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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 loca...
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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 Paci...
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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 of r...
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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 public...
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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 annive...
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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 Com...
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| September 3 - Mark campaigns to end fuel poverty for mobile home |
Mark met with residents of a South Derbyshire mobile home park on September 10 to discuss fuel poverty. The meeting came after Mark was alerted to the problem by pensioners Mavis (74) and...
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| September 1 - Mark meets with ambulance trust |
Mark is satisfied that Derbyshire will get a new air ambulance following a meeting with ambulance officials. It was announced earlier this month that the County Air Ambulance helicopter that is bas...
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| August 29 - Mark to open free-access cash machine |
Mark is to officially unveil a new cashpoint at a Hartshorne shop as part of his campaign to improve the provision of free-to-use machines. Mark will visit the newly-refurbished Lifestyle Express s...
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| July 13 - Mark calls for flood defences |
Mark is to meet with representatives from the Environment Agency to push for defence measures for villages at risk of flooding. South Derbyshire villages - Scropton, Hatton, Egginton, Hilton, Willi...
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| July 7 - Swadlincote store reopens |
A Swadlincote shop is to re-open after nearly three months of refurbishment. Eureka Stores in Midway has been trading from the owners' front room for the past 10 weeks whilst work has been going on...
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| May 2007, Mark urges the extension of a specialised reading sche |
Mark Todd, South Derbyshire MP led an adjournment debate on a reading scheme on May 24. The Reading Recovery programme, which was first established in New Zealand 20 years ago, is an ind...
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| June 4, 2007 Mark discovers delays at VOSA call centre |
Nearly 25 per cent of people phoning a Government agency are hanging up because of delays in staff answering. &nb...
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| May 15, 2007 Mark campaigns for more books for blind children |
Mark Todd, South Derbyshire MP, is to urge publishers to make books more easily available to schools and parents caring for blind and partially-sighted children. According to the Royal National Ins...
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