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Hopping Mad of Westminster

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It seems that the Strangers' Bar in the Houses of Parliament has changed the range of beers that it offers and this change means that it no longer serves Youngs beers. As the Youngs Brewery is in his constituency, Martin Linton felt compelled to raise this issue with the leader of the house.

The Guardian enjoed this story so much that they ran it twice - both in the newspaper and also on their news blog.

The Press Gazette has a story about a group of MPs who were campaigning to allow television to show MPs "in the main committee corridor, where much of the offstage political drama at Westminster takes place". This proposal has been rejected by the government.

The group of MPs propsing this change included Martin Linton who is quted as saying:

There should be a relaxation of the rules of filming around the precincts of Parliament.

People are not allowed to take still photographs, which means that many newspapers refuse to use grainy pictures taken from the television monitor and end up using nothing at all.

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