Yvette celebrates Apprentice Week at the Skills Xchange
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 Local MP Yvette Cooper visited Wakefield College Skills Xchange as part of Apprentice Week to speak to students about their experiences of learning a trade. Students on the...
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Yvette Champions Home Energy Saving Scheme
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 Local MP Yvette Cooper met with users of the Warm Front scheme to find out how home energy improvements are making life more comfortable while reducing heating costs...
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Airedale and Pomfret nurseries given more time
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Council chiefs have announced that two nurseries under threat of closure are to remain open until the summer. The government has cut Wakefield Council's early years funding by...
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MPs continuing the fight for Pontefract A&E
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Last week Yvette and neighbouring MP Jon Trickett met with the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust again this week following the preparation of a report by ‘critical friends’ appointed...
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Yvette calls for a new plan for Pontefract A&E
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Local MPs Yvette Cooper are pushing for regional health officials, government ministers and the Trust Board to send in outside help to get Pontefract A&E re-opened at night....
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MPs call on Health Minister to bring in outside help for Pontefract A&E
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Local MPs Yvette Cooper and Jon Trickett have met Government Health Ministers and regional health bosses to call for outside help to be brought in to help re-open...
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Freeston students visit parliament
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 This week pupils from Freeston Academy in Normanton visited parliament. The students met Yvette in Parliament and quizzed her about economic policy, as well as how parliament...
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Road Safety Week success in Knottingley
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As part of Road Safety Week, staff from Royal Mail and Yvette Cooper MP visited The Vale J&I school in Knottingley to talk to pupils. Organised by...
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Yvette stands up against reduction in service
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Yvette Cooper has spoken of her anger at plans by train company Grand Central to reduce the Pontefract – London service from next month. From 11th December, trains...
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Schoolgirls stand up for A&E
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 Two school girls from Darrington have presented local MP Yvette Cooper with a letter to the Prime Minister David Cameron, asking him to halt the closure of Pontefract...
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