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Why Haringey’s Post Offices should be kept open

This is the response I’ve sent in to the consultation over the future of our Post Offices:
As Member of Parliament for Hornsey & Wood Green I would like to submit the following response to the consultation on the proposed closures of sub-post offices in Alexandra Park (N10), Salisbury Road (N22), Weston Park (N8), Ferme Park […]

March 31st, 2008 by Lynne Featherstone

Welcome to a new blogger…

One of my interns, Helen Duffett, has started her own blog. Hurrah! More women political bloggers I say!

March 31st, 2008 by Lynne Featherstone

Haringey’s sporting talent

Having had V20 (volunteering for young people) come to see my at Parliament - I went to visit some of their volunteers in Haringey this weekend.
In this instance - it was sports coaches who devote themselves to Friday night coaching younger children to run at the White Hart Lane Community Sports Centre. How fantastic they […]

March 30th, 2008 by Lynne Featherstone

HARTS for Families

Visited HARTS for Families on Friday to take part in a film about the work they do.
I was really impressed by them when I visited in 2006. They are a unique facility for those who are too vulnerable to get themselves out of the dreadful holes people can get into as life’s problems and difficulties […]

March 30th, 2008 by Lynne Featherstone

Boris Johnson does a runner

Thursday saw a topical debate on policing in London in Parliament. I took the opportunity to raise with the Minister about the need to station Safer Neighbourhood teams in their own ward - i.e. Highgate!
Of wider note was the brief appearance of the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London - Boris Johnson. […]

March 30th, 2008 by Lynne Featherstone

£182,000 spent by Haringey Labour on PR firm

Sigh … this is the story from the Ham & High:
More than £182,000 of taxpayers’ money has been spent on employing Lexington Communications since 2005 - money that critics say could be better employed combating the Palace’s asbestos contamination.
Lexington Communications, employed by the charitable trust which is administered by Labour-lead Haringey Council, also […]

March 29th, 2008 by Lynne Featherstone

Are we making the most of blogging?

That’s the question I posed to fellow Liberal Democrats over on Lib Dem Voice yesterday:
So why is it that it is so rare for my stories to be picked up and spread online, even when they are newsworthy enough for mainstream journalists to be picking them up and running with them?
Perhaps you think it’s because […]

March 29th, 2008 by Lynne Featherstone

Where I lead, Gordon Brown follows…

Well, well, well - just after I started Twittering, 10 Downing Street starts using Twitter too.
Nice to know I have such influence. (Oh don’t be a spoilsport and say it’s a coincidence!)

March 27th, 2008 by Lynne Featherstone

Four hour Post Office marathon meeting

Four hours yesterday in marathon meeting trying to get through to the Post Office how dreadful the proposals for shutting many of our local Post Offices are. And they didn’t really answer any of the questions put to them on finance at all properly. If they don’t know the answers to the actual financial situation […]

March 27th, 2008 by Lynne Featherstone

Mr Speaker doesn’t speak for me

So - the Speaker is going to court to try to keep secret the details of MPs’ second homes expense claims. Well, he doesn’t speak for me when doing that!
I’ve got an open mind on the security benefits of keeping the addresses of the homes secret - especially as if you know an MP is […]

March 25th, 2008 by Lynne Featherstone