﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>News from Paul Farrelly MP</title><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/rss.aspx</link><description>News from Paul Farrelly MP</description><copyright>(c) 2010, Paul Farrelly. All rights reserved.</copyright><ttl>5</ttl><item><title>Newcastle MP tackles PM over ‘cliff edge’ police cuts</title><description>Newcastle MP Paul Farrelly took the growing controversy over cuts to policing direct to Prime Minister David Cameron today, as official figures showed officer numbers falling to a ten year low.</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/westminster-news/news.aspx?p=102233</link><pubDate>Wed, 1Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Local MP welcomes BBC’s radio rethink</title><description>Newcastle’s MP, Paul Farrelly, has welcomed the BBC’s decision to review its planned cuts to local radio services, including Radio Stoke.</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/westminster-news/news.aspx?p=102232</link><pubDate>Fri, 27Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Newcastle Council objects to Boundary Commission plans to split the town in two</title><description>Newcastle-under-Lyme’s Borough Council has come out officially against controversial proposals by the Boundary Commission to split the town between two new constituencies, stretching into northern...</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102231</link><pubDate>Thu, 20Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Health Secretary to look at High Street Medical Practice closure</title><description>Secretary of State for Health Andrew Lansley is to look at the circumstances surrounding the planned closure of Newcastle-under-Lyme’s popular High Street Medical Practice following an intervention...</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102230</link><pubDate>Tue, 18Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Local NHS boards scrapped ahead of schedule, by-passing disputed new laws </title><description>The boards running Staffordshire’s three NHS primary care trusts have been abolished 18 months early, pre-empting Parliament and provoking fresh controversy over the Government’s top-down health...</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102229</link><pubDate>Mon, 3Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Newcastle MP calls for explanation for enterprise zone rejection</title><description>Newcastle MP Paul Farrelly is calling for a full explanation about why the government rejected North Staffordshire’s application to become a low-tax enterprise zone.</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102228</link><pubDate>Fri, 2Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MP warns of threat to NHS as waiting lists soar</title><description>Waiting lists for hospital treatment in North Staffordshire rose sharply during the first year of the coalition government, prompting accusations by Newcastle’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly that “the NHS...</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102227</link><pubDate>Thu, 1Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>North Staffordshire misses out on Enterprise Zone status</title><description>The Government’s decision to overlook North Staffordshire’s bid to become an Enterprise Zone has dealt a serious blow to hopes of generating new jobs and kick-starting economic recovery in the area,...</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102226</link><pubDate>Wed, 17Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MP calls for police to probe cover-up, as well as full extent of News of the World phone hacking</title><description>Newcastle-under-Lyme’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly has asked the Metropolitan Police for assurances that it will investigate not just the extent of phone-hacking and wrongdoing at the now defunct News of</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/westminster-news/news.aspx?p=102225</link><pubDate>Wed, 27Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Council blunders prompt renewed call for sale of green spaces to be scrapped</title><description>Damning evidence of secrecy and misjudgment over proposals to sell off public open spaces across Newcastle have provoked fresh demands by the town’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly for the plans to be...</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102224</link><pubDate>Tue, 26Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MP warns of toxic waste risk at Bradwell housing site</title><description>Council plans to sell off green spaces across Newcastle Borough were embroiled in fresh controversy today after the town’s MP, Paul Farrelly, disclosed evidence linking one of the sites earmarked for</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102223</link><pubDate>Wed, 8Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MP condemns plans to close Newcastle police station</title><description>Newcastle’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly has attacked coalition government cuts to Staffordshire police, and plans to close the town’s police station, as outdoing even Margaret Thatcher.</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/westminster-news/news.aspx?p=102222</link><pubDate>Tue, 5Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Newcastle’s MP slams Council over secret business rate write-offs – for the fifth year in a row…</title><description>Newcastle’s Labour MP has criticised the Borough Council and its outgoing leader Simon Tagg over secretly writing off business rates, yet again, of pub owners whose companies serially collapse year...</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102220</link><pubDate>Wed, 23Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Newcastle’s MP challenges Council ‘concealment’ over green spaces sell-off</title><description>Newcastle’s Labour MP Farrelly has issued a formal complaint to the Borough Council over its insistence on withholding key details of the scope of its controversial plans to sell off  green spaces...</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102221</link><pubDate>Mon, 21Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Care home ‘closure by stealth’ angers Newcastle MP</title><description>Social services chiefs have been accused by Newcastle MP Paul Farrelly of planning the closure of an award-winning elderly care home by stealth.</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102219</link><pubDate>Wed, 16Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Council climb-down prompts fresh demand for sale of open spaces to be scrapped</title><description>Council leaders in Newcastle have withdrawn two controversial planning applications for housing development on public open spaces amid growing opposition from residents and fierce criticism by the...</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102218</link><pubDate>Tue, 1Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Council urged to ditch ‘shameful’ sell-off of public open spaces</title><description>Newcastle’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly has demanded that the Borough council withdraw the first two planning applications for housing on public ‘green spaces’, pending proper public examination of...</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102217</link><pubDate>Fri, 25Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brick-maker responds to quarry concerns, and now consults on new plans</title><description>Brick-maker Ibstock has submitted radically changed plans for the development of its Knutton quarry in Newcastle-under-Lyme, ditching proposals to leave a vast lake afterwards in response to local...</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102216</link><pubDate>Thu, 24Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Council Cabinet urged to suspend proposed sell off of public open spaces</title><description>Newcastle MP Paul Farrelly has urged members of Newcastle’s controlling Cabinet to suspend the proposed sell-off of public open spaces amid mounting criticism from residents across the Borough.</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102214</link><pubDate>Tue, 8Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MP spearheads village crackdown on speeding drivers</title><description>Newcastle MP Paul Farrelly has joined safety-conscious residents in a campaign to stop dangerous drivers speeding through their village.</description><link>http://www.paulfarrelly.com/news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102215</link><pubDate>Fri, 28Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
