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Clive declares the newly refurbished dental cline open wide

Clive Efford attended the formal opening of the new practice on Dunvegan Road, and praised the innovative changes made. The building has housed a dental practice since 1971. Last July Dr Nasser Mushekhan took over and working closely with Greenwich Teaching Primary Care Trust has completed an extensive modernisation...
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The Pre Budget Statement

A Briefing by Clive Efford MP The government has invested £20 billion into the economy to assist people through this economic downturn. Why has it done this? It is vital that we maintain as much economic activity through this period...
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Home Owners Support Scheme

Homeowners Support Scheme Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme A new Government-backed guarantee scheme to help people at risk of repossession In these difficult economic times, it is vital that we do everything possible to provide support for homeowners facing difficulties. That is why I have welcomed the...
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Community Space Challenge launched in Eltham

Community Space Challenege is a new national initiative which will massively transform areas from Devon to Newcastle. The exciting programme offers an opportunity for young people to work together with their local agencies to improve, enhance and develop their communities. One of the first areas to be regenerated will...
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Clive Welcomes Post Office Card Account Contract

Clive Efford has welcomed news that the government has decided to award a new contract for the continuation of Post Office Card Account directly to the Post Office. Clive had written to the Prime Minister earlier in the year asking for the contract to be given to the...
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Victory as Clive and Residents get their buses

Clive is celebrating victory after London Buses finally agreed to provide a direct bus route from Eltham to North Greenwich. The move has come after years of campaigning from Clive Efford and others. “Hundreds of people have contacted me over the years to express their dissatisfaction with public transport...
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Clive Leads London MPs to see Home Secretary about Knife Crime

Clive Efford has led a delegation of London MPs on a visit to see the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to ask for radical and imaginative measures to help tackle youth crime, anti-social behaviour and knife crime. Clive organised the delegation so that MPscould stress upon the Home Secretary that...
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Clive Celebrates Council's Decision To Refuse Big Yellow Self Storage

Clive Efford has welcomed the decision by Greenwich Council to turn down an application from Yellow Box to put one of their self-storage warehouses on the old World of Leather site at Cliftons Roundabout. “This is a completely unsuitable location for a development like this”,...
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The Eltham Leisure Centre, The numbers speek for themselves

Weve seen the success ourselves, but now the numbers show the progress. Since the opening of the Eltham Leisure Centre, the new Centre has gone from strength to strength providing benefits for all of the local community, attracting the young and old to the services of the Library, Gym,...
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Clive Opens the Greenacres Children Centre

Clive officially opened the Greenacres Children's Centre on the Coldharbour Estate. The Centres provides a range of services, including early years learning, childcare, family health services, and advice and support for parents. There are now 2,900 Children's Centres across England and the government is on course to meet its...
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Clive Shows The Minister of Health Around The Garland Road Clinic

Health Minister Ben Bradshaw visited the new Garland Road Clinic to see for himself the state-of-the-art facilties at the new health centre. The new Clinic provides a wide range of services for our residents. It houses a GP’s surgery; a podiatry service; a dental surgery; as well as a midwifery service and baby clinic....
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Ensuring pensioners claim all the benefits in which they areentitled to

From October 2008 pensioners - subject to Parliamentary approval - pensioners will be able to claim four benefits (the State Pension, Pension Credit, Council Tax Benefit and Housing Benefit) in one phone call to the Pension Service. But Clive wants to ensure that all pensioners start to claim what's rightfully...
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Clive Helps Save The Samuel Montague Youth Club

Clive has been working over the last two years to put together a team of people to save Samuel Montague Youth Club. The Youth Club had been an independent trust since it opened. It was funded from the profits from an investment, but this had gradually eroded over many years...
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Minister Tessa Jowell visits the Eltham Centre

Olympics minister Tessa Jowell MP came to visit the Eltham Centre to see the new state-of-the arts sports facilities located in the heart of Eltham. She was met at the Centre by Clive Efford MP for Eltham and Greenwich and Woolwich GLA member Len Duvall. The centre has been a...
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Another look inside the new Eltham Leisure Centre

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...
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Clive sees the opening of the new Demelza shop in Eltham High Street

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...
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Clive lights up Eltham

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....
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The NHS safe in Labour's hands

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...
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Clive says doctors' and nurses' changes go to far

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...
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Improving local health services

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...
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Clive protests against closure of disabled workers' factory

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...
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Clive inspects the latest Eltham Centre progress

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...
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Bowling for Charity

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...
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The truth about our National Health Service

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...
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Clare and Clive help get new police team for Brooklands

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...
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