Stourport based Carpets of Kidderminster recently won an order to supply Azerbaijan's Presidential Palace with thousands of square feet of carpet, so Mark Garnier leapt at the opportunity to find out more about the opportunity presented to the local firm.
An annual highlight of the calendar is the Kidderminster Horticultural Society show, held at the Bewdley Ramada. This year's show was the biggest seen and Mark was honoured to have been given a guided tour of the trade stands and the agricultural competition tent.
David Cameron outlines our plans to cut the cost of politics by reducing the number of MPs, ending perks and subsidies and getting rid of ministerial cars.
The campaign to keep head and neck cancer operations in Worcestershire continued yesterday at a meeting in the Charles Hastings Education Centre at the Worcester Royal Hospital.
Mark Garnier spent an afternoon meeting with Kidderminster Town Centre Manager Jackie Roberts to learn more about what is happening with Kidderminster's retail economy. The good news is: its OK. Whilst some town centres across the country are seeing 25% vacancy rates, Kidderminster is currently just below 10% and that is a credit to the team that have been running the town.
Mark Garnier, Wyre Forest’s Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman, has called for Government tax inspectors to come clean on their plans to increase taxes on family homes. New evidence has emerged of the Government preparing for a council tax revaluation across England, aimed at increasing tax bills in order to fill the black hole in Britain’s ruined public finances.
The fete season continues through the summer and it was the turn of Chaddesley to hold its annual fete at the primary school. Hundreds of people turned up to enjoy the event and the weather held good for the afternoon. Mark joined Chaddesley district councillor Steve Williams to enjoy the afternoon, stocking up on coffee walnut cake from one of the stands.
The opening event for the Kidderminster Arts Festival was the Town Crier Competition, with six town criers from around the region competing with each other over judging classes such as clarity, loudness, confidence and partner’s attire.
The Office for National Statistics yesterday announced that unemployment has continued to rise, taking the jobless figure to 2.4 million, a sharp rise of 220,000 in three months. This means that 7.8% of the workforce are now unemployed. Beneath the statistics lies a more depressing number. According to the BBC's calculations, the number of 16 to 24 year-olds unemployed now stands at 928,000 or 12.6%.
