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MP applauds council leader for tough stance of allowances

MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, has backed calls by East Riding of Yorkshire Council leader Cllr Steve Parnaby OBE, to freeze members’ allowances.

 Following news public sector pay would be frozen for at least two years, Cllr Parnaby said it was only right elected members of the council should also forgo any rise in [...]

East Yorkshire misses out on World Cup bid

Flags

MP Graham Stuart today said he was very sorry to hear East Yorkshire had not been  named as a World Cup venue.

Hull was told today its application to be a host city for England’s 2018 World Cup bid had been unsuccessful. It lost out to Sunderland, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle-Gateshead, Bristol, Plymouth, [...]

MP’s Humberside Must Go campaign takes a big step forward

Humberside must go

The term Humberside could be dropped forever from postal addresses thanks to a long-running campaign by Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart.

 After more than two years of meetings, co-ordinating joint submissions and calling on Postcomm to drop the long-defunct title from electronic files used by the Royal Mail, commissioners have announced they [...]

High-speed rail link a priority under any Conservative Government

High speed rail line

 Building a new high-speed rail link between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds would be one of the Conservative Party’s first acts in Government if they win the next general election, Shadow Transport Secretary, Theresa Villiers MP, has said.

 The Conservatives announced their plans for the new line at their party conference in [...]

High speed rail line for Yorkshire and Humber backed by MP

Rail Lines

Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, has added his voice to growing calls for a new high speed rail link to be built linking Yorkshire and the Humber with London.

 The Government has committed itself to building a new generation of high-speed rail services. Plans unveiled earlier this month by the Transport Secretary, Lord [...]