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Newcastle-under-Lyme’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly has today made public his tax returns going back to 2001, when he was first elected, and has challenged other candidates - and local elected leaders - to do likewise in the run-up to the 2010 elections.

Organisers of the 2012 London Olympics, including athletics legend Sebastian Coe, are to spell out the opportunities for North Staffordshire’s pottery industry in over £700 million of contracts to be awarded in the run-up to the Games, following questioning by Newcastle’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly.

Paul has just issued his latest report, going to each of over 40,000 homes in Newcastle, highlighting progress with the town’s brand new college, the new maternity and cancer units at the City General and the independent way he stands up for local people, regardless of party or politics.

Villagers plagued by speeding traffic have been urged, during National Road Safety Week, to become ‘Community Speedwatch’ volunteers in an attempt to make their roads safer.

Newcastle’s MP Paul Farrelly is pressing government ministers for further assistance with new housing on a demolished estate in Cross Heath after gaining a £7.5 million government ‘Kickstart’ grant for the area.

Newcastle-under-Lyme’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly has won an accolade for his persistent Select Committee work and questions in parliament which undermined a court gagging order suppressing details of a toxic waste dumping scandal involving international oil trader, Trafigura.

Newcastle-under-Lyme’s MP Paul Farrelly has renewed his pledge to oppose any increase in university tuition fees - and called on students and their families to demand to know if any candidate at the next general election would be prepared break their ‘party whip’ over the issue on a future vote in Parliament.

Newcastle’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly has asked the government to intervene in Tesco’s plans to redevelop its huge, 24-hour superstore at Trent Vale, taking the decision out of the hands of Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

Newcastle MP Paul Farrelly has received assurances that the town’s Territorial Army headquarters will be reprieved from closure under proposals to restructure reserve forces.

Newcastle MP Paul Farrelly has welcomed the opening of three new children’s centres in the Borough but warned that urgent action is needed to protect them from a future of cutbacks and closures.