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ONEWIGHT CAMPAIGN – UPDATE 1 SEPT 2010

September 3, 2010 Featured

Support for the OneWight Campaign continues to grow.  Over 16,000 signatures have been received at the campaign headquarters to date, but there are still petition sheets all around the Island that need to be gathered in and the signatures added to this ever growing total.  It has been decided to leave the on-line petition open [...]

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The ONEWIGHT campaign

August 26, 2010 Featured

The ONEWIGHT campaign is still out and about in force! This Saturday the campaign will be out and about in Lake, Sandown and Shanklin where campaigners will be obtaining signatures on paper petitions as well as on the banners that will be attached to the OneWight Campaign Bus! On Sunday, the campaign will be heading to Havenstreet Steam Show and [...]

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MP Welcomes Bus Announcement

August 12, 2010 Featured

The Island’s MP Andrew Turner has welcomed the announcement by Southern Vectis that they will increase the age for half-fare travel from 13 to 18 with effect from 1st September.  He is currently out and about on his annual Summer Surgery which he says has been busier than ever this year.  The biggest issue by [...]

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ONEWIGHT is campaigning to keep the Isle of Wight united.

August 3, 2010 Featured

ONEWIGHT is campaigning to keep the Isle of Wight united. In June, Deputy PM Nick Clegg said he wanted to reduce the number of MPs. As part of that, the Island’s election boundaries will be redrawn, and one or more bits of the Island will be attached to mainland Parliamentary constituencies, something that hasn’t happened [...]

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New Computers Cause Backlog Andrew Turner apologised today

July 6, 2010 News

New Computers Cause Backlog Andrew Turner apologised today for unusually long delays in the service given by his officerecently. He explained that MPs only receive a new computer system after an election andbecause his office was one of the first to be changed over after the election in May there havebeen a number of teething [...]

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Isle of Wight MP Welcomes Road Announcement

June 17, 2010 Driving
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MP Welcomes Road Announcement Andrew Turner has today welcomed the news that the Government is set to proceed with a massive £364m investment in Island roads under a Private Finance Initiative (PFI). Due to the very difficult state of the nation’s finances, a large number of public spending commitments have been axed.  All spending decisions [...]

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‘ChangeforLife’ – a way of life at Shalfleet School

May 13, 2010 Events
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‘ChangeforLife’ – a way of life at Shalfleet School Shalfleet has been officially recognised a number of times for its efforts in being a healthy school. In 2007 the school was awarded the prestigious National Healthy School standard and won the Isle of Wight Healthy Eating Alliance Award. In 2010, continued commitment to Healthy Eating [...]

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ANDREW TURNER Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for the Isle of Wight

April 28, 2010 Business
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‘Time for a Positive Vote’ Conservative Candidate for the Isle of Wight, Andrew Turner, today called on Islanders to cast a positive vote for clear leadership of the country next Thursday as all parties enter the final week of campaigning tomorrow. Mr Turner who is campaigning for re-election as the Island’s MP said he was finding [...]

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Our money is ‘in the economy’ too! Isle of Wight MP

April 12, 2010 Featured

Our money is ‘in the economy’ too! Following the final Prime Minister’s Question Time of this Parliament, Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, has expressed his astonishment at the Prime Minister’s suggestion that Conservative plans not to implement a planned rise in National Insurance contributions (NIC) is equivalent to withdrawing £6 billion from the British economy. Labour’s [...]

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Island MP speaks out against Budget failure

March 30, 2010 Business

In a speech to the House of Commons last night, Andrew Turner MP criticised the Budget, which sets out the Government’s plans for taxes and public spending. Mr Turnerreminded the Government that the British people, British business and International markets are all crying out for concrete plans to reduce Britain’s economic deficit.  He expressed his concern [...]

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MP predicts ‘Transport Chaos’

March 24, 2010 News
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The Island’s MP Andrew Turner has condemned strikes by the Unite union and the proposed strike by railway workers which will cause chaos to planned family holidays in the run up to, and over the Easter break.  Unite has called seven days of strikes to disrupt British Airways flights, the stoppages began this morning after crisis talks [...]

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MoneySavingExpert.com

March 24, 2010 Business

Budget action on basic bank accounts desperately needed Almost two million people still don’t have access to a current account Banks are expected to be forced to offer all customers a basic current account at the very least in Wednesday’s Budget. Despite claims by the banks that ‘everybody can have a bank account’, many consumers [...]

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FSB RESPONSE TO CHANCELLOR’S BUDGET 2010

March 24, 2010 Business
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FSB RESPONSE TO CHANCELLOR’S BUDGET 2010 In the last Budget speech before the country goes to the polls, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) welcomed help for small businesses but is disappointed that the Chancellor is proceeding with the proposed hike in National Insurance Contributions (NICs). The FSB was pleased with the announcement to take [...]

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Time Is Running out’ for Vitamins!

March 9, 2010 News

Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, recently joined celebrity actress Jenny Seagrove and Totland resident Chris Whitehouse to urge the Prime Minister to block a bid by the EU to ban thousands of vitamin & mineral food supplements, used safely in the UK for decades. As they launched the Time Is Running Out campaign, campaign group Consumers for Health [...]

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Island MP – Regulation for Island’s NHS must be more flexible

March 5, 2010 Featured
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Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, has called on the Government to review the level of regulation for the Island’s NHS Primary Care Trust. He brought the issue to the attention of the Minister of State for Health, Michael O’Brien MP, in a debate yesterday in Westminster Hall. The Island’s PCT is unique in that it combines [...]

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Turner ‘shocked’ at Iraq Revelations

February 3, 2010 Featured

Following the first day of Claire Short MP, the former International Development Secretary, giving evidence to Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq Inquiry, Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, has expressed his shock at some of the information that has emerged. Mr Turner was one of 15 Conservative MPs who voted against the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.  At the [...]

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