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Mark today joined Cllr Nicky Gale and a big local crowd to help tidy up Oldington and Foley Park. The morning was organised by Nicky Gale and Wyre Forest Community Housing, and was joined by over twenty local residents and schoolchildren. Wyre Forest District Council helped support the event. Mark has joined in a number of these events in the past. "I think it is very important that people take an interest in their local community" says Mark, "and these big tidy ups are one way of doing it."

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,

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.

With the election just two days away, a group from the National Convention – the senior team of the voluntary Conservative Party – descended on Wyre Forest to help get out those last messages to local voters.