David Cameron was today assessing the damage to his premiership after 79 Tory MPs – including Shropshire’s Mark Pritchard – defied him.
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Britain’s politicians will today make an historic decision. They’ll rule on whether we, the public, have a right to decide to remain in the EU – or they’ll tell us they’re perfectly capable of making that decision themselves.
Three of Shropshire’s five parliamentary constituencies will change under new plans which have been drawn up by the Boundary Commission for England, it was revealed today.
Shropshire’s five MPs today gave a lukewarm response to plans to change Parliamentary constituencies.
MPs across Shropshire submitted their lowest ever claims for expenses in April and May this year, according to figures released today. The six regional MPs claimed £2,060.95 – or £33.79 per day.
Almost all Shropshire MPs could find themselves fighting radically revised constituencies during the next general election, it has been claimed.
Campaigners have met a county MP as part of their fight to stop plans for wind turbines, which they claim will blight an “unspoilt area of Shropshire”.
Campaigners are to meet with a county MP as part of the fight to stop plans for wind turbines which they claim will blight an ‘unspoilt area of Shropshire landscape’.
MPs across Shropshire cost the taxpayer £533,205 in the last year.
A decision on plans which could see hundreds of pylons being built across Shropshire and Mid Wales will not be made until at least 2015, it has been claimed.
A delegation from Shropshire was today meeting National Grid bosses over plans which could see pylons built across parts of the county and Mid Wales.
MPs in Shropshire and Mid Wales are to have a showdown meeting to grill National Grid chiefs over controversial plans which could see huge pylons built near rural villages.
The Government was today due to be confronted with a cross-party alliance calling for a ban on the use of wild animals in circuses, as a group of celebrities penned an open letter to the Prime Minister over the issue.
Shropshire’s MPs are to hold top level talks in Westminster over controversial plans which could see huge electricity pylons built in the county.
Shropshire could retain all five of its MPs in the biggest review of constituency boundaries in electoral history, it has been suggested.
MPs’ expenses for the first two months of this year, including the amount they racked up on their taxpayer-funded credit cards, were being laid bare for the first time today.
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government is working, will last and survive its full five-year lifetime, Shropshire’s Tory MPs declared today on its one-year anniversary.
Tory Philip Dunne and Labour’s David Wright were today putting their political differences behind them to warn voters in Shropshire against changing Britain’s electoral system.
Shropshire and Mid Wales MPs claimed a total of £18,554.29 in expenses during November and December 2010, while more than £3 million was paid out nationally figures revealed today.
Letter: The European Court of Justice has just decreed that insurance companies must no longer discriminate between men and women when selling annuities and motor insurance.
Letter: Our MP, Philip Dunne, has spent a lot of time on local media backing up Shropshire Council line on falling school rolls and the fact that some small schools may have to close because of surplus places.
A Shropshire MP has issued a rallying call to rural communities to get behind campaigns to save their under-threat primary schools from closure.
Shropshire and Mid Wales MPs claimed a total of £23,343 in expenses during September and October 2010, figures revealed today.
Shropshire and Mid Wales MPs claimed a total of £23,343 in expenses during September and October 2010, new figures revealed today.
A Shropshire MP today said it was “crucial” front-line police officers were protected as new figures showed there are nearly 150 fewer officers in the West Mercia area than a year ago.
Daniel Kawczynski and Tom Taylor, who worked closely together when the latter was chief executive of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, have teamed up again to fly the flag for British farm produce.
Staff at a Shropshire care home have claimed beds available for the elderly are not being filled due to problems with red tape.
Young carers from Shropshire, who selflessly devote time to help sick loved ones, will be welcomed into Parliament today to discuss issues affecting their lives.
Plans for Police Academy-style citizen street patrols to combat anti-social behaviour in Church Stretton have won the backing of county MP Philip Dunne.
South Shropshire WI volunteers who have been stopped from tending to a garden for health and safety reasons could find their case referred to the government.
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