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Slough Express Article - 2 August 2011
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My geraniums are only just flowering. Everyone else seems to have had geraniums for weeks, but mine took ages to come into leaf, let alone flower. I grew...
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Slough Observer Article - 4 July 2011
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In parliament last week I led a special debate about our government’s refusal to back an international convention giving rights to domestic workers. The government had not intended to...
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Slough Express Article - 4 July 2011
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Parents who had to take time off work when schoolteachers were on strike got a preview of challenges facing them in the long school summer holidays. This government has decided...
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Slough Express Article - 24 June 2011
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Many people in Slough complained to me during the general election that they felt the Labour government had taken their hard earned money in taxes and passed it on to...
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Slough Express Article - 10 June 2011
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The Panorama revelation of violence, bullying and humiliation of patients with learning difficulties contained chilling echoes of events a couple of decades ago at Longcare, a large learning disability institution...
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Slough Observer Article - 27 May 2011
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This Government's attempt to cut prison sentences for rapists who plead guilty early shows that the men-only team of Justice ministers just does not get it when it comes to...
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Slough Observer Article - 20 May 2011
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Pensions are a pillar of modern society, as we live longer the need for a dependable income in old age becomes more urgent. Yet the growth of means...
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Slough Express Article - 13 May 2011
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Slough's local election results are in. It's hard to fight an election, to put yourself up for judgement by thousands of voters. It takes courage and hard work...
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Slough Observer Article - 6 May 2011
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People have been asking me which way they should vote in the AV referendum. People in Slough are probably more interested in the council election than the voting system, but...
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Slough Observer Article - 17 December 2010
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As I sit at my desk writing this I am listening to a debate happening at the same time in the European Parliament in Strasbourg about human trafficking. I plan...
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Slough Express Article - 10 December 2010
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We are poorer. It's official. ASDA supermarket produces a regular income tracker. It shows that the weekly spending power of the average family has declined from £180 per week...
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Slough Observer Article - 26 November 2010
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Last Sunday was Stir-Up Sunday, so called after the Collect which is read in church from the Book of Common Prayer, it starts: Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord,...
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Slough Express Article - 5 November 2010
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This week marked Equal Pay Day: the day which illustrates the pay gap between women and men which is equivalent to men being paid all the year round while women...
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Slough Express Article - 29 October 2010
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People are still surprised at the hours the House of Commons meets. When I was first elected I would quite often trip over snoring colleagues who had camped in cosy...
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Slough Observer Article - 22 September 2010
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"It's just not cricket," is a common, if old-fashioned, English expression for when something that is unjust or just plain wrong is done to someone or something. It comes from...
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