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30 Most Recent News Stories
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Fri 5th Mar 2010
Steve Gilbert, the Prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has marked St Piran's Day with a visit to Rowe's Bakery to give his backing to the campaign to protect the Cornish Pasty.
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Mon 1st Mar 2010
Steve Gilbert, the Liberal Democrat candidate for St Austell & Newquay, has today called on Cornwall's Conservatives to "come clean" on the amount of money they are spending in Cornwall that has been donated by Conservative Peer Lord Ashcroft.
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Mon 15th Feb 2010
Conservative-led Cornwall Council have been condemned for a "Budget of broken promises" by Liberal Democrat Councillors.
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Wed 10th Feb 2010
Steve Gilbert, the prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has condemned Conservative councillors for failing to "grasp the nettle" and cancel the contract for the incinerator planned for St Dennis.
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Thu 28th Jan 2010
Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg has announced plans for £22million of extra funding to boost education in Cornwall after Lib Dem research revealed that less than half of Cornish pupils from poorer backgrounds attained 5 GCSE grades A to C compared with 70% of pupils from better off families.
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Tue 26th Jan 2010
Steve Gilbert, the prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has condemned Cornwall Council for once again failing to grasp the nettle and cancel the contract for the incinerator planned for St Dennis.
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Tue 19th Jan 2010
Almost 2,500 innocent people across Cornwall and Devon have been added to the National DNA Database since the European Court of Human Rights ruled in December 2008 that the practice was illegal - taking the total DNA of innocent people stored by the local police force to 23,364, research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed.
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Thu 14th Jan 2010
Steve Gilbert, the Prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has today called for action to tackle the 8,000 homes standing empty across Cornwall - with 1,490 in the former Restormel council area alone.
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Mon 11th Jan 2010
Steve Gilbert, the Cornish campaigner and prospective local MP for St Austell & Newquay, has launched his election campaign with the promise to "always put local people before party politics."
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Wed 23rd Dec 2009
St Austell & Newquay's Prospective MP Steve Gilbert has called on Network Rail to use a bit of joined-up thinking in tackling the obstacles to further development of the Newquay to Par branch-line to ensure that local services don't lose out when inter-city services use the line in summer months.
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Wed 23rd Dec 2009
St Austell's Prospective MP Steve Gilbert has called on Network Rail to "finish the job" at the town's railway station. The Lib Dem candidate has met with station and railway representatives on a number of occasions to push them for a time-line for finishing the multi-million project.
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Thu 17th Dec 2009
Newquay lap-dance club Divas is set to lose its licence for adult entertainment after a day-long review of operating practices at the club yesterday which heard evidence of children being employed as lap-dancers and saw Police footage of the dancers regularly breaking the recently imposed "no touching" rules.
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Tue 8th Dec 2009
Steve Gilbert, the prospective Liberal Democrat MP for St Austell & Newquay, has condemned Mark Prisk MP, the so-called Conservative 'Shadow Minister for Cornwall', for failing to back the people of Cornwall in a recent vote in the House of Commons.
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Wed 2nd Dec 2009
Steve Gilbert, the Prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has said that Conservative Council Leader Alec Robertson's pledge to run an "open and transparent" administration is now in tatters and that Cornwall Council is playing a game of "smoke and mirrors" over the incinerator.
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Wed 2nd Dec 2009
Steve Gilbert, the Prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has said that Conservative Council Leader Alec Robertson's pledge to run an "open and transparent" administration is now in tatters and that Cornwall Council is playing a game of "smoke and mirrors" over the incinerator.
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Fri 27th Nov 2009
Liberal Democrats are celebrating after winning the first ever by-election to Cornwall Council, securing a 13.4% swing from the Conservatives to take the seat.
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Fri 20th Nov 2009
Newquay's Prospective MP, Steve Gilbert, has welcomed the news that people in Newquay are to get a say in whether they want a lap-dancing club on one of the town's main streets.
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Fri 20th Nov 2009
Steve Gilbert, the Prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has called on Cornwall Council to put more information in the public domain about what the £30million estimated cost of exiting the waste contract with Sita would buy for Cornwall.
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Sun 15th Nov 2009
Newquay's Prospective MP, Steve Gilbert, has welcomed the news that the new law set to tighten controls on lap-dancing clubs has been signed by the Queen.
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Thu 12th Nov 2009
Liberal Democrats are celebrating after winning the Newquay South by-election with over 56% of the vote in a straight contest with the Conservatives for a seat on the town council.
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Tue 10th Nov 2009
Steve Gilbert, the prospective MP for the new seat of St Austell & Newquay, which includes the clay villages, has warned that the eco-town plans unveiled today by Imerys and Orascom "are not a done deal" and that "key questions on jobs, schools and transport links" remain unanswered.
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Wed 4th Nov 2009
Steve Gilbert has once again pledged his support for a referendum on British membership of the European Union saying, "if I'm elected as the first MP for St Austell & Newquay I will use my vote in the House of Commons to make sure that we all get a vote on Britain's future."
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Thu 29th Oct 2009
St Austell's prospective MP, Steve Gilbert, was today at the opening of the £75million redevelopment of St Austell town centre and said, "People in St Austell have waited awhile to hear these nine words: on time, on budget, and the shops are open."
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Wed 28th Oct 2009
Newquay's prospective MP, Steve Gilbert, met with residents of Ocean Housing's Hilgrove Road sheltered housing scheme this week and backed their call for action on anti-social behaviour and sought assurances on the age range of future tenants at the scheme.
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Wed 28th Oct 2009
Steve Gilbert, the Prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has slammed Cornwall Council for dragging its feet in answering a Freedom of Information request on the incinerator saying "the Council's failure to be open and transparent with residents is a cause of serious concern".
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Fri 23rd Oct 2009
Steve Gilbert, prospective local MP, got a sneak preview of the new St Austell Town Centre on Thursday when he was given a guided tour of the £75 million site.
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Mon 19th Oct 2009
Prospective MP Steve Gilbert has signed-up his Parliamentary campaign office up to the 10:10 scheme, and has pledged to cut his office's carbon emissions by 10% in 2010.
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Thu 15th Oct 2009
Prospective St Austell & Newquay MP, Steve Gilbert, is urging the Government to reconsider its decision to stop weekend exercises and all other Territorial Army training for the next six months in a bid to save money, calling the move "unwise at best, reckless at worst".
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Wed 7th Oct 2009
Prospective MP Steve Gilbert has completed his first ever 'travelling surgery' visiting 5 towns, 40 villages and 16 estates in every Parish across the St Austell & Newquay constituency - over 6 full-days, Steve travelled over 450 miles and met over 600 people.
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Sat 26th Sep 2009
Steve Gilbert, the prospective MP for St Austell & Newquay, has said that the reassessment of the Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West is "good news" for St Austell & Newquay and that it may help stop overdevelopment of the area.
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