Your chance to change Osmaston

Labour’s Baggy Shanker is keen to involve local residents in the discussions about what happens to the old Rolls Royce factory site.
Speaking to Labour Voice he said:

“I want to make sure that every household in Osmaston is consulted and involved in the Master Planning for the re-development of the Nightingale Road site”.

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Gordon Brown’s National Security statement

Gordon Brown has presented the Government’s new National Security Strategy to the House of Commons. In a Parliamentary statement the Prime Minister said that the security service is to double in size to 4,000 personnel. The Prime Minister’s statement

“The primary duty of government - our abiding obligation - is, and will always be, the safety of all British people and the protection of the British national interest. So following approval by the National Security Committee and the Cabinet, the Government is today publishing the first national security strategy.
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Drive to tackle antisocial behaviour in young people

A thousand of the most challenging young people in England will be targeted for non-negotiable intervention as part of a drive to prevent future antisocial behaviour. Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Children’s Secretary, unveiled the new approach as part of
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House of Commons Statement on the European Council

17 March 2008 Check Against Delivery With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the European Council held in Brussels that I attended with my Rt Hon Friend the Foreign Secretary on the 13th and 14th of March. I begin with the most immediate concern the Council addressed: the need to ensure that - faced with global financial turbulence and what the Council identified as a deteriorating global economic outlook, high global oil and commodity prices and volatility in exchange rates - we continue to do all we can with coordinated action at a European and a global level to maintain stability and growth.
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