MP visits Affletts Court and highlights trial service. Today John Baron MP highlighted the need for local residents to use the new shopper bus service (SB81) during its trial period, during his visit to Affletts Court, Glebe Field, off Church Road, Basildon. The trial period starts on Tuesday next week (6th September) and will...
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MP asks travellers to leave peacefully John Baron MP, for Basildon and Billericay, has welcomed the court decision refusing the last ditch attempt by the travellers to delay eviction of the illegal traveller site at Dale Farm, Basildon. After visits by Vanessa Redgrave and local Bishops, John has also criticised the involvement of various...
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John Baron MP has welcomed Government proposals for tougher community sentences that will see offenders made to do a full five-day week of hard work and job-seeking. The work will include manual labour, improving public areas by clearing up litter, cleaning graffiti and maintaining parks and other green spaces. The new rules will see...
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MP, Councillor Frank Tomlin and Volunteers celebrate attendance of 1000th child Today John Baron MP and Cllr. Frank Tomlin visited the Lee Chapel North Holiday Club at the Community Hall, Ballards Walk, Basildon. The Holiday Club has provided dozens of free activities and workshops for local kids during the Easter, May and summer holidays. It...
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MP highlights fact 1600 people need potentially lifesaving stem cell transplant John Baron MP is calling for young men in Basildon and Billericay to do something special this summer. The MP has joined other politicians in helping to recruit men between the ages to 18 and 30 to join the Anthony Nolan stem cell...
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MP highlights postcode lottery and lung cancer survival rates As Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer, John Baron MP today backed calls to save lives from England’s biggest cancer killer by tackling variations in lung cancer services in England. Your chance of surviving lung cancer depends on where you live in...
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MP highlights Cancer Research UK’s work John Baron is highlighting Cancer Research UK’s work in the East of England and backing the charity’s bid to make the region and the UK a thriving environment for medical research. John met Cancer Research UK’s doctors, scientists and supporters – including East of England researcher Professor Sir...
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MP highlights NATO discord Today John Baron MP highlighted a recent statement by the French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet who has said that there is no solution through force and that we should now sit around the table with all sides. John said: “The French Defence Minister’s statement represents a major U-turn. It is...
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MP says take over should be binned for good Yesterday evening Parliament agreed on a motion which called for Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation to withdraw their bid for BSkyB, believing this was in the public interest. John said: “Given The News of the World revelations, particularly about phone hacking interfering with police...
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MP says focus on outcomes must drive earlier diagnosis Today in the House of Commons during Health Questions, John Baron MP pressed The Rt. Hon. Andrew Lansley CBE MP, Secretary of State for Health on how NHS reforms were going to best improve cancer care. John is Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary...
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