Rob Wilson MP, a former Shadow Higher Education Minister, has published a report entitled ‘Achieving Fair Access: Removing Barriers, Realising Potential’, as part of the Fair Access To University Group (FAUG) of Conservative MPs. The report makes a series of bold recommendations to enhance social mobility by increasing accessibility for disadvantaged students to the best universities, based on merit.
Paul Swaddle, 44, will be the next President of the Conservative Party National Convention and will chair Conservative Conference to be held in Birmingham in October. Paul is a local councillor representing Maiden Erlegh ward on Wokingham Borough Council and is a Vice Chairman of Reading East Conservatives.
Your Conservative Councillors in Loddon and Bulmershe Whitegates wards want to ensure all residents know that there are just over seven weeks until Wokingham Borough Council’s new waste collection service starts.
The new service starts on April 2 and weekly household waste collections will continue, kerbside black box recycling will become weekly with the garden waste scheme extended to cover the whole borough, meaning a further 10,000 homes will be able to opt into this chargeable service.
Rob Wilson, MP for Reading East, yesterday congratulated Superintendent Stuart Greenfield and his team in the House of Commons on the successful Orts Road drugs bust, which has led to the conviction of the £4 million a year turnover drugs gang, totalling 34 years in prison.
Rob Wilson, MP for Reading East, yesterday congratulated Superintendent Stuart Greenfield and his team in the House of Commons on the successful Orts Road drugs bust, which has led to the conviction of the £4 million a year turnover drugs gang, totalling 34 years in prison.
Reading Borough Conservatives have welcomed the news that the town is the Ladbrokes betting favourite to win City Status in this year’s Diamond Jubilee announcement. The application for City Status was taken forward at no cost to the Council Tax-payer by the Conservative / Lib Dem Coalition with support from Labour. Only the Green party refused to support the initiative.
Rob Wilson, Member of Parliament for Reading East, met with GCSE Citizenship pupils at Woodley’s The Bulmershe School on Friday and was quizzed on everything from tuition fees to the legal drinking age.
Our team of Conservative Councillors and activists was joined again on Saturday by Rob Wilson MP. Local residents in Peppard were pleased to meet candidate Jane Stanford-Beale and to be asked their views and invited to offer opinions on both local and national issues.
A second team of Wokingham Borough Councillors and members was out knocking on doors in the Loddon Ward of Woodley and many supporters were out this weekend delivering the latest Community Newsletter in Church Ward.
Update on work of our councillors in Church Ward Tim Harris and Azam Janjua. Azam will be proposing two motions at tomorrow's council meeting.
A new road in Woodley has been named Henderson Close in memory of Kathleen Henderson who was a Conservative town and district councillor and chaired Woodley Town Council from 1990. She was a Vice President of the Association until her death aged 77 in 2009.
