Martin Linton gets a namecheck in an IC London story about Lambeth MP Kate Hoey. The story is about how Ms Hoey is not in favour of the ban on fox-hunting. The article points out that most other south London Labour MPs (including Martin Linton) voted for the ban.
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A round-up of recent stories from Martin Linton's official site.
Share Community host Kennedy visit
Minister for Work Jane Kennedy met disabled trainees at Battersea's Share Community last week.
(This is presumeably in response to the recent invitation that Martin Linton issued in PMQ)
Boost for patient care
Wandsworth's Primary Care Trust, which funds GPs, is to get an increase of £29 million next year and £32 million the next.
Big changes for Battersea Park Road
A housing and office development which was to go ahead with no affordable housing now has 18 lower-cost flats thanks to the intervention of Martin Linton MP.
Borough force jumps to over 600
Battersea MP Martin Linton met Wandsworth's new police commander Joe Royle last week to discuss the big increase in police numbers.
The Backing Blair campaign today released a press release pointing out that almost 100 MPs won't be able to use their web sites once the General Election is announced.
In summary, the argument is that once Parliament is dissolved then there are no MPs and no-one has the right to use the title. The press release lists over 90 MPs who use domain names which include the title 'MP'. These MPs will therefore not be able to use those domains for the duration of the election campaign.
Whilst this problem doesn't apply to Martin Linton's official site it does apply to this site, so I thought it was worthwhile explaining the position this site will be taking during the election campaign.
Once Parliament is dissolved, Battersea will no longer have an MP so it would be wrong for this site to cover Martin Linton exclusively as it does now. We will switch to covering all of the candidates standing in the constituency. We hope to have a full list of the candidates as soon as it is published and we will be closely tracking all campaign activity. We will, of course, be striving to give all candidates equal coverage.
As the election results are announced we will go back to "business as usual" and will be covering whoever wins the election.
Battersea MP Martin Linton is calling on his constituents to lobby their councillors as part of his campaign to save Clapham Junction's street wardens.
Read full story in the Wandsworth Guardian.
Some recent news stories from the official site.
