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Clive Leads London MPs to see Home Secretary about Knife Crime
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 Clive Efford has led a delegation of LondonMPs on a visit to see the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to ask forradical and imaginative measures to help tackle youth crime,anti-social behaviour and knife crime.Clive organised the delegation so that MPscould stress upon theHome Secretary that the problem could not be solved by the policeand the government on their own and that more legislation w... |
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The Eltham Leisure Centre, The numbers speek for themselves
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 Weve seen the success ourselves, but now thenumbers show the progress. Since the opening of theEltham Leisure Centre, the new Centre has gone from strengthto strength providing benefits for all of the local community,attracting the young and old to the services of the Library, Gym,Swimming Pool, Cafe, Council Services, Citizens Advice Bureau,Greenwich Community College and the Town Centre Man... |
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Clive Opens the Greenacres Children Centre
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 Clive officially opened theGreenacres Children's Centre on the Coldharbour Estate. The Centresprovides a range of services, including early years learning,childcare, family health services, and advice and support forparents. There are now 2,900 Children's Centres across England andthe government is on course to meet its target of having 3,500centres by 2010."These Children's Centres arealready beg... |
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Clive Shows The Minister of Health Around The Garland Road Clinic
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 Health Minister Ben Bradshawvisited the new Garland Road Clinic to see for himself thestate-of-the-art facilties at the new health centre. The new Clinicprovides a wide range of services for our residents. It houses aGP’s surgery; a podiatry service; a dental surgery; as well as amidwifery service and baby clinic.Ben was invited to the clinicby Clive Efford and the two met with staff and patient... |
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Ensuring pensioners claim all the benefits in which they are
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 From October 2008 pensioners -subject to Parliamentary approval - pensioners will be able toclaim four benefits (the State Pension, Pension Credit, Council TaxBenefit and Housing Benefit) in one phone call to the PensionService.But Clive wants to ensure that all pensioners start to claim what'srightfully theirs now. The take up of benefits amongst the poorestpensioners is still only a... |
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Clive Helps Save The Samuel Montague Youth Club
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 Clive has been working over thelast two years to put together a team of people to save SamuelMontague Youth Club. The Youth Club had been an independent trustsince it opened. It was funded from the profits from an investment,but this had gradually eroded over many years until there was notenough coming in to cover the bills.Working in partnership with the Charlton Athletic Community TrustC... |
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Minister Tessa Jowell visits the Eltham Centre
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 Olympics minister TessaJowell MP came to visit the Eltham Centre to see the newstate-of-the arts sports facilities located in the heart of Eltham.She was met at the Centre by Clive Efford MP for Eltham andGreenwich and Woolwich GLA member Len Duvall.The centre has been a huge success, attracting over 100,000visitors in the first three months it was open with an astonishing40,00 visitors in... |
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Another look inside the new Eltham Leisure Centre
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| I hope you enjoy this new video that we have made up from our recent visit to the nearly finished Leisure Centre. In the video we see: The entrance hall Cafe Two of the new pools The gym The new centre will provide the community with a host of new facilities including: Facilities 3 swimming pools including: 8 lane 25m c... |
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Clive sees the opening of the new Demelza shop in Eltham High Street
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 Demelza, the Children's hospice who are bulding a unit in Eltham, have opened a shop in Eltham High Street.Clive was on hand to help with the ceremonies which took place on the night of Eltham Lights Up. Also on hand to help were Charlton Athletic stars Andy Reid and Lloyd Sam. For more information on the incredible work that Demelza carries out, click here. Or you... |
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Clive lights up Eltham
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 Eltham residents celebrated the switching on of the Eltham High Street Christmas lights on Eltham's lighting up on 22 November. The High Street was closed off to cars to enable everyone to enjoy the street entertainers, stage perfomers and the the beautiful lantern parade organised by local schools. After the parade, a fantastic fireword display finished off a fun-packed evening. "El... |
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The NHS safe in Labour's hands
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 When Labour came to power in 1997, 14,050 patients had been waiting for over 13 weeks for inpatient treatment in our four local hospitals; Queen Elizabeth, Bromley, Queen Mary's and Lewisham. Of which 4,619 patients had been waiting an for over 26 weeks. But since then under a Labour government, the NHS has gone from strength to strength and now in July 2007 the number waiting 13 weeks... |
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Clive says doctors' and nurses' changes go to far
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 Clive has fiercely opposed recommendations drawn up by local health workers to change our local health services. "Any changes to local health must benefit patients," said Clive. Plans drawn up by doctors and nurses from local hospitals are proposing major changes to where services are based. They will be part of a consultation involving local people. "The fact there ... |
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Improving local health services
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 Make sure your voice is heard. Eltham's Clive Efford has welcomed a proposal to re-open the Eltham and Mottingham college hospital at Passey Place in Eltham town centre. The local Primary Care Trust will be consulting the public shortly about their plans. The new facility would provide a 24 hour walk in service with up to 40 intermediate beds and would act as a base fo... |
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Clive protests against closure of disabled workers' factory
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 Eltham's Clive Efford joined with workers and trades union officials yesterday to protest at the proposed closure of the Woolwich Remploy factory. Senior management at Remploy have announced that 43 disabled workers’ factories up and down the country are threatened with closure.Clive Says "These factories are a fantastic resource and should not be just thrown away. J... |
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Clive inspects the latest Eltham Centre progress
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 Clive Joined the leader of the Greenwich Council, Chris Roberts, in a visit to the nearly completed Eltham Centre. They were taken around to see the three new pools in the centre, which one was an 8 lane county competition pool with sophisticated touch timing, they also saw the spaces which are to be used by Greenwich Community college. Clive says "This new facility is a... |
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Bowling for Charity
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 Clive joined councillors, local bowls players and other's when he joined the Mayor of Greenwich's Bowls Team as they took on the Blackheath and Greenwich Bowling Club in Brooklands Park.The event raised money for the Mayor's nominated charities which this year are Cancer Research and the Down's Syndrome Association. "This was a wonderful opportunity to help raise ... |
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The truth about our National Health Service
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 The NHS is often criticised by the media as inefficient and in "Crisis". But a staggering 70% of us from recent polls found that their personal health care experiences under the NHS were positive, but found 64% were bombarded by negative press and coverage by the media. It becomes easy to see that the negative press the NHS receives can be often vastly unprecedented. ... |
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Clare and Clive help get new police team for Brooklands
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 A new police team is now policing the Brooklands Park Estate. In the past, this estate was patrolled by a SNT (Safer Neighbourhood Team) based at East Greenwich Police station, which is some distance away. But thanks to the work of councillor Clare Morris and Labour's Clive Efford, the police have re-organised their teams. This now means the SNT which poli... |
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Traffic Alert!
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 Inconsiderate and sometimes dangerous driving and parking has been worrying residents and the parents of children attending Brooklands School. Clare is working with the school, the Council and the local police to get further traffic calming measures in place to curb this problem. The Walk To School initiative has successfully increased the numbers of children cycling and walking ... |
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Removing a blot on the landscape
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 Brooklands Park Estate has long been recognised for its beautiful pond and lawns which provide an exceptionally pleasant and peaceful environment for residents of all ages to enjoy. However an unfinished concrete raised paving area has caused problems, an ugly relic dating back to the 1960's, which was sometimes used for outside drinking and became a focal point for anti-social b... |
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