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An exciting opportunity awaits visitors to the New Art Gallery in Walsall. Jacob Epstein's sculpture, Jacob and the Angel, is on display, having been loaned from the Tate with the support of Art Fund.
After many years of work, the electrification of the Chase Line is finally complete. I unveiled a plaque on Friday 10 May 2019 at a cross-party event with the Railways Minister, Andrew Jones MP, and Amanda Milling, the MP for Cannock Chase.
Many Members are trying on the captain’s hat, even though there is no vacancy for the captain of the ship, but as they look through the periscope, they will see that 200,000 nurses have left the NHS since 2010. If there is not a crisis, why are the Government having to recruit tens of thousands
The Trussel Trust, a charity that works to support food banks and aims to end poverty and hunger across the UK, has released its end-of-year statistics.
We are breaking records again, with the longest time without a Queen’s Speech. This is a bizarre state of affairs. I do not know of any other Government being run like this, particularly as there have been only five years since 1900 in which a Queen’s Speech has not taken place. It feels like the
HM Opposition Labour Party tabled the following Opposition Day motion on 1 May 2019 calling on Parliament to declare an environment and climate emergency:
I attended the Workers' Memorial Observance on Saturday 27 April 2019. We gathered together at the Memorial gardens in the grounds of St Matthews Church at 12 pm to remember those who have died or been injured at work.
I asked the Leader of the House for a debate on an early-day motion on the state visit by Donald Trump. The President of the United States is entitled to come here on any other visit but not in our name, he has spearheaded a dangerous policy of separating migrant children from their families and of