Sentences with phrase «campaigned against closures»

Culture secretary Andy Burnham, skills secretary John Denham, Welsh secretary Paul Murphy and chief whip Geoff Hoon have also campaigned against closures in their own constituencies.

According to the Swedish Book Review, she advocated for animal rights, protected threatened trees and campaigned against the closure of library branches, but was especially vocal about her views of world peace.

While I support the Prescott's campaign against the closure, I think this is the wrong cause.

It would probably be a Conservative / Labour marginal but in 2001 it was won by an Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate, Dr Richard Taylor, on the back of a campaign against the closure of the casualty unit at Kidderminister hospital.

Delegates to the union's Department for Work and Pensions group conference - to be held on Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 May, before PCS's annual conference which opens the following day - will debate an emergency motion to launch a campaign against the closures.

Two offices in the public consultation will not now be closed: Edinburgh City and Old Swan on Merseyside, where there have been concerted PCS campaigns against closure.

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who represents the district and campaigned against the closure of Juan Pablo Duarte, hailed the new school.

His departmental responsibilities include the post office and the Daily Telegraph has run a personalised «Stop Jim» campaign against the closure of sub-post offices (more information at They work for you)

Not exact matches

Every penny of spending will have to be tallied and reported — this would severely limit campaigns such as those run by Hope not Hate against BNP candidates or local grassroots campaigns such as those against hospital closures or roadbuilding.

Seven members of Gordon Brown's government have campaigned against local Post Office closures, despite the government ordering 2,500 branches to close by the end of the year.

Jack Straw, for example, had argued the case for nationwide closures to his constituents but was campaigning against specific closures, Mr McFadden explained.

The campaigns being run by activists across London against hospital closures are a good model.

Leading and participating in individual campaigns, from the living wage to library closures to campaigns against legal loan sharks.

David Cameron is re-launching his campaign against the government's so - called NHS cuts with a focus on the closure of NHS district hospitals.

She has campaigned for safer access to schools and against the closure of community facilities.

Warning that services to the public would suffer as well as the local economies hit by the office closures, the union vowed to campaign against the plans.

Although they don't want expectations to get too high they believe the campaigns against the 10p tax band and post office closures could produce excellent results for the Tories in May's local elections and in London - where Boris now leads by 13 %.

As a candidate, de Blasio campaigned against the city's skyrocketing inequality, got arrested with health care workers to stop hospital closures, and promised to raise taxes on the city's wealthiest.

In recent days, the candidates have weighed in on the closure of Indian Point and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fracking ban, and advocates are now making an aggressive push to get the campaigns of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton to come out against the proposed Constitution pipeline.

A broad network of parents from across West Northumberland have launched a campaign to fight against the proposed closure of 16 rural schools.

The next meeting of CASCADE, Campaign Against School Closures and Against Displacement Everywhere.