Local MP Yvette Cooper has welcomed the return of orthopedic surgery to Pontefract hospital after a three year campaign to restore services to Pontefract Hospital.
Local MPs including Yvette have expressed shock as new figures from Sheffield University show the Government is taking over £120m out of the local economy this year as a result of things like the bedroom tax, cuts to tax credits and child benefit and other changes and failing to secure growth in the economy.
Local MP Yvette Cooper has welcomed the return of orthopedic surgery to Pontefract hospital after a three year campaign to restore services to Pontefract Hospital.
Yvette Cooper MP was interviewed by local young people at a new digital radio station at the HUT in Airedale.
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