http://stephengilbert.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Steve Gilbert en-GB Steve Gilbert http://stephengilbert.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Steve Gilbert 2010-03-10T19:29+00:00 United Kingdom http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000184/st_pirans_day_steve_backs_pasty_protection_bid.html Steve Gilbert, the Prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has marked St Piran's Day with a visit to Rowe's Bakery to give his backing to the campaign to protect the Cornish Pasty. 2010-03-05T12:58+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000183/time_for_tories_to_come_clean_on_ashcroft_money_in_cornwall.html Steve Gilbert, the Liberal Democrat candidate for St Austell & Newquay, has today called on Cornwall's Conservatives to "come clean" on the amount of money they are spending in Cornwall that has been donated by Conservative Peer Lord Ashcroft. 2010-03-01T12:51+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000182/toryled_cornwall_council_condemned_for_budget_of_broken_promises.html Conservative-led Cornwall Council have been condemned for a "Budget of broken promises" by Liberal Democrat Councillors. 2010-02-15T16:18+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000181/conservative_cabinet_refuses_to_cancel_contract_for_incinerator.html Steve Gilbert, the prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has condemned Conservative councillors for failing to "grasp the nettle" and cancel the contract for the incinerator planned for St Dennis. 2010-02-10T14:00+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000180/time_for_a_fair_deal_for_cornish_schools.html Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg has announced plans for £22million of extra funding to boost education in Cornwall after Lib Dem research revealed that less than half of Cornish pupils from poorer backgrounds attained 5 GCSE grades A to C compared with 70% of pupils from better off families. 2010-01-28T12:00+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000179/cornwall_council_continues_to_flog_a_dead_horse_on_the_incinerator.html Steve Gilbert, the prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has condemned Cornwall Council for once again failing to grasp the nettle and cancel the contract for the incinerator planned for St Dennis. 2010-01-26T13:00+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000178/local_police_hold_dna_data_for_23364_innocent_people.html Almost 2,500 innocent people across Cornwall and Devon have been added to the National DNA Database since the European Court of Human Rights ruled in December 2008 that the practice was illegal - taking the total DNA of innocent people stored by the local police force to 23,364, research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed. 2010-01-19T12:00+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000177/time_to_tackle_the_8000_empty_homes_in_cornwall.html Steve Gilbert, the Prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has today called for action to tackle the 8,000 homes standing empty across Cornwall - with 1,490 in the former Restormel council area alone. 2010-01-14T12:00+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000176/its_time_for_real_change.html Steve Gilbert, the Cornish campaigner and prospective local MP for St Austell & Newquay, has launched his election campaign with the promise to "always put local people before party politics." 2010-01-11T10:00+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000175/par_to_newquay_branch_line_joined_up_thinking_needed.html St Austell & Newquay's Prospective MP Steve Gilbert has called on Network Rail to use a bit of joined-up thinking in tackling the obstacles to further development of the Newquay to Par branch-line to ensure that local services don't lose out when inter-city services use the line in summer months. 2009-12-23T13:00+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000174/st_austell_station_time_to_finish_the_job.html St Austell's Prospective MP Steve Gilbert has called on Network Rail to "finish the job" at the town's railway station. The Lib Dem candidate has met with station and railway representatives on a number of occasions to push them for a time-line for finishing the multi-million project. 2009-12-23T12:00+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000171/divas_lose_lapdance_licence.html Newquay lap-dance club Divas is set to lose its licence for adult entertainment after a day-long review of operating practices at the club yesterday which heard evidence of children being employed as lap-dancers and saw Police footage of the dancers regularly breaking the recently imposed "no touching" rules. 2009-12-17T11:58+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000170/mark_prisk_visits_cornwall_after_failing_to_back_the_cornish_in_key_vote.html Steve Gilbert, the prospective Liberal Democrat MP for St Austell & Newquay, has condemned Mark Prisk MP, the so-called Conservative 'Shadow Minister for Cornwall', for failing to back the people of Cornwall in a recent vote in the House of Commons. 2009-12-08T15:34+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000172/council_accused_of_smoke_and_mirrors_over_incinerator.html Steve Gilbert, the Prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has said that Conservative Council Leader Alec Robertson's pledge to run an "open and transparent" administration is now in tatters and that Cornwall Council is playing a game of "smoke and mirrors" over the incinerator. 2009-12-02T12:00+00:00 http://stephengilbert.org.uk/news/000173/council_accused_of_smoke_and_mirrors_over_incinerator.html Steve Gilbert, the Prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has said that Conservative Council Leader Alec Robertson's pledge to run an "open and transparent" administration is now in tatters and that Cornwall Council is playing a game of "smoke and mirrors" over the incinerator. 2009-12-02T11:00+00:00