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24th August 2010

Mark Garnier MP voices dismay over local job losses at Carpets of Kidderminster

Mark Garnier, Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest, today offers his sympathy to those affected by last week's announcement that Carpets of Kidderminster Ltd will undergo a phase of restructuring that includes 50 job losses.

2nd August 2010

Traders’ Victory on Comberton Hill

Traders on Kidderminster's Comberton Hill have had their livelihoods under threat from unwelcome council plans. As part of plans to redevelop Kidderminster's station, the council wanted to remove a number of 30 minute parking bays outside shops opposite the station entrance, thus depriving the business of passing trade.

1st August 2010

BSF – the background and the current thoughts.

Readers are aware of the cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme in Wyre Forest, but e-mails to me suggest there is still some confusion to what is going on and why. The background to all this is the Wyre Forest Schools Review. About ten years ago, the Labour government ordered that Wyre Forest deal with falling standards,

27th July 2010

Mark Garnier MP welcomes £1m Big Lottery Fund bonus for Kidderminster

Mark Garnier, Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest, welcomes the recent announcement that at least £1 million of Lottery good cause funding is to be channelled into the Horsefair, Broadwaters and Greenhill areas of Kidderminster.

3rd June 2010

Mark Garnier makes Maiden Speech in the House of Commons

Mark Garnier, Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest, has made his Maiden Speech in the House of Commons. He paid tribute to the outgoing MP for the constituency and spoke warmly of Kidderminster, Stourport, Bewdley and the rural areas that surround them. The full text of the speech can be found here.

8th May 2010

Election Night Victory for Wyre Forest Conservatives

Mark Garnier's hard work over the last 6 years has been rewarded with a ringing endorsement from the people of Wyre Forest. Wyre Forest was always going to be a tough battle for any candidate challenging the hugely popular incumbent Dr Richard Taylor.

27th April 2010

Shadow Transport Secretary Theresa Villiers Visits Kidderminster

Conservative shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers visited Kidderminster today to see for herself just how important the proposed Stourport by-pass is. Theresa Villiers, whose family comes from Bewdley, was in town on the invitation of Mark Garnier.

20th April 2010

Philip Dunne and team come to help in Wyre Forest

Campaigning continues in Wyre Forest and Philip Dunne, standing for re-election in Ludlow, came to Wyre Forest to help the local team here. Philip brought with him a gang of four and residents of Cookley will be coming home tonight to find the Conservative message on their doorsteps.

11th April 2010

Mark Garnier - NHS Action Day in Stourport

Local Conservatives took the campaign to the streets again, rallying support for the NHS. Stourport was the venue for this important cause and many local residents and visitors to the town signed the petitions for NHS cancer care.

8th April 2010

Kidderminster Town Centre Rally

Some of the Conservative team gathered together in Kidderminster to spread the word amongst shoppers at the town centre market. The mood on the street is definitely one of 'change'. After years and years of Labour's broken promises and chronic mismanagement of the economy, there is a real sense of anticipation.

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