Black Country news and blogs Saturday 9 November 2013
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston
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Enterprising Birmingham Innovation Awards
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 2 Apr 13
The Enterprising Birmingham Innovation Competition is aimed specifically at research staff and academics that have research based ideas for creating new enterprise and is a showcase to demonstrate some of the University of Birmingham’s brightest …
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BBC Radio 4 today, 10am
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 21 Mar 13
It is BBC News School Report day today and over 1000 schools across the country are taking part including Bartley Green School.
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Support Fair Fuel UK’s Call For Cut In Fuel Duty
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 12 Mar 13
Quentin Willson and his FairFuelUK team met up with Gisela Stuart in the House of Commons on Monday afternoon 4th March in support of the call for a better deal on petrol diesel taxation in the forthcoming Budget.
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QE Medical Corps Redundancies!
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 28 Feb 13
Labour Questions in Parliament reveal Tory-led Government’s plans to make soldiers in the Royal Army Medical Corps redundant Questions in the House of Commons by Labour’s Shadow Defence Team have revealed that the Royal Army Medical Corps, primarily based at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth …
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Big Lottery Fund’s Heroes Return 2 Programme
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 26 Feb 13
The Big Lottery has announced the launch of their 2013 Heroes Return 2 Programme.
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National Express Foundation £100k Pledge
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 25 Feb 13
Gisela Stuart is calling on local community groups to apply for funding through the National Express Foundation.
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Devenishgirl Bakery Wins Impressive Contract
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 21 Feb 13
Devenishgirl Bakery has won the contract to supply eleven thousand mini cakes to the Symphony Hall for the Birmingham City University graduations and it is all part of the new Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is campaign.
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Free ECG Screening in Edgbaston
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 15 Feb 13
CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) are holding free ECG testing sessions for 14-35 year olds in Edgbaston on the 23rd and 24th March 2013.
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Scrap Metal Dealers Bill 2012 – 2013
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 14 Feb 13
The Scrap Metal Dealers Bill has received its third reading in the House of Lords without any amendments being requested.
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Launch of England China Business Forum
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 12 Feb 13
The launch of the England China Business Forum took place at the Birmingham Hippodrome on Friday 8th February.
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The Skills Factor – Do You Have What It Takes?
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 11 Feb 13
Do you have the skills to develop a new product, business idea, or concept and to then make it a reality, demonstrating your business and entrepreneurial skills along the way? The Skills Factor 2013 competition is open and now even easier to enter! Gisela said: “I will be contacting schools in the…
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MP Pledges to Support People with Bowel Cancer
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 5 Feb 13
Gisela has committed to working with patients and the local NHS to ensure high quality and safe care is secured for all bowel cancer patients in the Edgbaston constituency.
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MP Shadows Scientist
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 29 Jan 13
In 2012, Dr Jo Parish shadowed Gisela Stuart in Westminster under the Royal Society Pairing Scheme.
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Make IT Happy, Make IT Safe
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 21 Jan 13
E-skills UK have launched the 7th year of the Make IT Happy competition, a UK-wide technology challenge for primary school students aged 9 to 11.
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Rolls Royce
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 14 Jan 13
During a recent visit to the Rolls Royce plant in Derby with the Defence Committee, Gisela Stuart had the opportunity to talk to apprentices and graduate trainees.
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Skills For Birmingham Launched
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 11 Jan 13
Forty local businesses back new drive to boost school leavers’ skills.
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Know Your Rights!
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 4 Jan 13
The Office of Fair Trading held a drop in session in Portcullis House prior to Christmas to showcase some of their recent consumer initiatives.
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Lordswood Girls in Parliament
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 3 Jan 13
Students from Lordswood Girls School visited the Houses of Parliament recently for a tour of the building and a special visit to the Jewel Tower.
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Carbon Monoxide Safety Advice
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 21 Dec 12
Leading TV soap-opera Coronation Street will feature an episode over Christmas with one of its leading characters becoming seriously ill as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning.
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‘Meningitis Matters’
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 20 Dec 12
Gisela Stuart MP is backing Meningitis Research Foundation’s activity ‘Meningitis Matters’ – to raise awareness of meningitis and septicaemia, and to ensure that tackling the diseases remains a top public health priority while the current NHS reforms are implemented.
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Social Mobility Foundation
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 18 Dec 12
The Social Mobility Foundation is a charity which supports high-achieving students from low-income backgrounds into top universities and professions.
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New Manager for Royal British Legion
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 11 Dec 12
The Royal British Legion’s new Area Manager, Jane Britton, met up with Gisela Stuart recently at an event in Parliament, dedicated to showcasing the changing face of Armed Forces welfare provision in the local community, and learn more about the Legion’s work developing Community Covenants …
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Quinton Tesco Foodbank
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 10 Dec 12
Gisela Stuart joined the Tesco team at the Quinton store to help collect donations of food that will be distributed to families by Charity organisers.
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Cruse Bereavement Care
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 6 Dec 12
Cruse Bereavement Care has been selected as one of charities for The Times Christmas Appeal.
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Greeting to Malala Yousafzai from the International Women Parliamentarians
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 4 Dec 12
The 50 international and UK parliamentarians who attended the recent international parliamentary conference on gender and politics at Westminster, have signed a greetings card to girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai, who is currently recuperating in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham…
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Winner – `We Made it’ Competition
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 3 Dec 12
In May Gisela Stuart announced the launch of the We Made It competition in schools in the Edgbaston constituency.
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Royal Society Pairing Scheme
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 30 Nov 12
As part of the Royal Society Pairing Scheme, Senior Lecturer in Cancer Sciences Dr Jo Parish from the University of Birmingham spent a week in Westminster gaining an insight into the life of an MP.
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Edgbaston’s Victorian Heritage
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 29 Nov 12
Channel 4’s How Britain Worked chose the Birmingham Botanical Gardens as the setting for the 25th November episode, on our Victorian heritage.
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Help With Fuel Bills
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 26 Nov 12
New figures reveal that more than one in ten UK households (13%) are eligible for assistance with fuel costs.
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Energy Efficiency Awareness in the Home
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 19 Nov 12
“Hole in the Roof” is an innovative campaign designed to raise the awareness of energy efficiency and encourage people to take action by giving them practical advice on the best ways to reduce their heating costs.
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Vote for Bob Jones
Gisela Stuart MP, Labour, Edgbaston 8 Nov 12
Bob Jones, your Labour candidate for the Police and Crime Commissioner election, has published his manifesto to prevent and reduce crime.