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30 Most Recent News Stories
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Tue 30th Jun 2009
Local MP, John Leech, has joined a leading disability charity and the 11 time Paralympics gold medallist Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson to call for improvements to disabled toilet facilities in the UK.
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Tue 30th Jun 2009
Local MP, John Leech, has this week pledged to fight for the future of newsagents in south Manchester.
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Mon 29th Jun 2009
Local Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington, John Leech, has this week tabled a motion in Parliament supporting a new campaigning network in the North West, which will focus on improving access to local essential NHS services for the estimated 6,500 children and adults living with severe muscle-wasting conditions.
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Fri 19th Jun 2009
Lib Dem MP, John Leech, is supporting leading health charity Diabetes UK's campaigning and fundraising activities during Diabetes Week this week.
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Mon 15th Jun 2009
The fight to save Ewing School stepped up a gear today when Lib Dem MP John Leech joined pupils and parents from the school at 10 Downing Street as they presented a petition against the council's closure plans.
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Mon 15th Jun 2009
In the week that Cristiano Ronaldo looks poised to join Real Madrid for a world record fee of £80m, Withington MP, John Leech has been leading efforts in parliament to make sport more accessible for fans.
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Tue 9th Jun 2009
Withington MP John Leech has welcomed the news that The Christie is to recoup the £6.5m that it lost in the Icelandic Banking collapse.
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Tue 2nd Jun 2009
Withington MP, John Leech, will be hitting the streets of Manchester on Saturday to collect donations for St. Ann's Hospice to mark this year's national Volunteers' Week.
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Wed 27th May 2009
John Leech MP and local councillors Lianne Williams and Norman Lewis helped Cavendish Primary School build a vegetable garden today.
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Tue 26th May 2009
Local MP John Leech will be dusting off his bowling balls this weekend for the West Didsbury Residents Association's annual Neighbours' Day at the Albert Club, Didsbury on Sunday afternoon.
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Thu 21st May 2009
Lib Dem MP John Leech has welcomed the government's dramatic U-turn to allow full settlement rights to all Gurkha veterans who have served in the British Army for at least 4 years.
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Tue 19th May 2009
Lib Dem MP for Withington, John Leech, yesterday called on the Home Secretary to back the "Save our Steve" Campaign and persuade GMP to keep Steve Hobson in his Crime Reduction Adviser's job.
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Wed 13th May 2009
Withington MP, John Leech, has welcomed the news that Metrolink is to be extended to Didsbury.
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Wed 13th May 2009
Lib Dem MP John Leech is to team up with local schools for a competition to design a mural for the sluice gates at Sale Ees.
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Wed 6th May 2009
John Leech, Lib Dem MP for Manchester Withington, has hit out at government plans to trial their controversial ID card scheme in Manchester.
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Wed 6th May 2009
Lib Dem MP John Leech will present a copy of the 'Cash Back for Christie' petition to Parliament on Thursday as the Withington-based hospital steps up its efforts to recoup the money that it lost in last year's Icelandic banking collapse.
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Tue 5th May 2009
Lib Dem MP John Leech has welcomed the appointment of Manchester-based writer Carol Ann Duffy as the new Poet Laureate.
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Fri 1st May 2009
Withington MP, John Leech, has today slammed Manchester's Labour MPs after all four of them failed to vote in support of offering equal settlement rights to all Gurkha soldiers who have fought for the British Army.
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Thu 30th Apr 2009
John Leech MP will hand over the M.E.N.'s Cash Back for Christie petition to Gordon Brown next week, calling for the £6.5 million lost in the Icelandic bank crisis to be refunded.
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Wed 29th Apr 2009
Withington MP John Leech met today with Minister of State for borders and immigration, Phil Woolas, to renew his calls for reconsideration of the asylum case of his constituent, Adela Mahoro Mugabo, who is threatened with deportation to Rwanda.
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Tue 28th Apr 2009
The government should be doing more to support small farms and planet-friendly farming according to Withington MP, John Leech.
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Tue 28th Apr 2009
John Leech MP won a prize as he was shown how to dance the foxtrot and the waltz at a tea dance, which was held by pupils at Lancasterian School last week.
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Tue 28th Apr 2009
Lib Dem MP, John Leech, is to meet later today with the chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), Nick Hardwick, and the all-party parliamentary group on policing to discuss a number of recent high-profile incidents that have brought the role of the Metropolitan Police under the spotlight.
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Tue 28th Apr 2009
Lib Dem Transport Spokesman, John Leech, has renewed calls in Parliament for the government to free up the £1 billion that has gone unspent following the failed congestion charge bid in Manchester.
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Wed 22nd Apr 2009
Local MP John Leech has welcomed the Home Office's decision to grant Tony Lola and his mother Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK, after a long battle to secure their safety.
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Wed 22nd Apr 2009
John Leech MP met with the Government Minister for the Third Sector yesterday, to make it clear that Christies should get their money back.
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Tue 21st Apr 2009
Ahead of tomorrows Budget Statement, John Leech, Lib Dem MP for Manchester Withington, has joined members of the parliamentary beer group at Downing Street to call for greater protection for the struggling pub industry.
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Tue 21st Apr 2009
"Initiative will lead to investment, create local green jobs and help with climate change and fuel poverty."
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Tue 21st Apr 2009
John Leech MP will be shown how to dance the foxtrot and the waltz at a tea dance to be held by pupils at Lancasterian School this Friday.
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Tue 21st Apr 2009
A cut in the rate of Value Added Tax on building repair and improvements is needed to provide a boost the building trade and bring construction workers back into employment, according to Manchester Withington MP, John Leech.
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