Remembering Tingley’s World War II tragedy
Posted by Martin Wingfield in Constituency News on 11. Nov, 2009 | Comments Off
At around 5.30 on the evening of November 14th 1944, Halifax bomber LK844 took off from Snaith Airfield near Goole and flew a path along what is now the M62.
Police and policy are losing the battle against drugs
Posted by Martin Wingfield in Constituency News on 05. Nov, 2009 | Comments
“Police activity against drug dealers tends to concentrate on small scale dealers who are also drug users and this is because they provide easy targets. However, they are reluctant to raid the large scale, non-user dealers because they live in what are called ’sensitive areas’.”
Democracy means power of the people – not power of parliaments
Posted by Martin Wingfield in EU News on 05. Nov, 2009 | Comments
EDWARD McMillan Scott (left) is a Vice-President of the European Parliament and one of Britain’s most senior MEPs. He was elected to represent the people of Yorkshire and the Humber as a Conservative, but was expelled from the Party for voicing his concerns about the Tories’ European partners, saying that he was unhappy with their extremist links.
Commission acknowledges that horses in transit do suffer
Posted by Martin Wingfield in Parliamentary Questions on 04. Nov, 2009 | Comments
TWO written questions on the welfare of horses submitted to the European Parliament by the British National Party’s member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire & the Humber, have received a reply this afternoon.
European Union feeds its own alienation from the public
Posted by Martin Wingfield in EU News on 04. Nov, 2009 | Comments
IN Brussels this morning, at a meeting of the Constitutional Affairs which was debating whether a change to a uniform voting system would increase voter turn-out in European Elections, Andrew Brons told those in attendance that it was disillusionment with the European Union that was responsible for the lack of enthusiasm for the elections.
“Stay away from staged managed confrontation” urges MEP
Posted by Martin Wingfield in Constituency News on 31. Oct, 2009 | Comments
ANDREW Brons, the British National Party MEP for Yorkshire & the Humber has urged his constituents to stay away from a demonstration by the so-called English Defence League in Leeds today.
