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.
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.
Margaret Thatcher House in Kidderminster has been buzzing with activity since the election was called. Volunteers have been pouring through the doors to help deliver leaflets, knock on doors, and prepare mailings to residents in Wyre Forest.
Mark Garnier has been a supporter of the Equitable Life policy holders who lost their savings in the collapse of this giant. In the run up to the general election, he repeats his promises. The policyholders of Equitable Life have been disgracefully treated by this Labour Government.
Gordon Brown has gone to the Palace and a General Election will be held on the 6th May. This will be the most important election of a generation. This will be a real chance for change. This election will decide who will govern Great Britain for the next five years.
Today, Gordon Brown finally called for the dissolution of Parliament and has named the date for the general election: 6th May. Preparations have been in place for months and the Conservative team have spent the day getting out the first of the posters, delivering the first election literature to voters, and knocking doors across Wyre Forest.
Mark Garnier, Wyre Forest's Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, this week gave his backing to new Conservative plans to stop a new jobs tax on working families and local firms across Wyre Forest.
On Monday, Mark visited the Kidderminster branch of Remploy, one of over 30 branches around the UK, and met with local staff and managers Richard Spalding and Peter Eden.
Local Conservatives in Stourport-on-Severn today handed over nearly 1,000 signatures to contribute to the campaign to save Stourport's Royal Mail delivery office. Rumours abound that the important local facility is facing the axe as Post Offices bosses make service cuts.
Worcestershire's Conservative candidates have repeated their call for a delay to huge changes to the running of the local NHS in the run up to the general election and welcomed NHS Worcestershire's announcement that public consultation will take place after the election.
