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Toby Perkins MP Visits Local Lottery-Funded Projects In Chesterfield

Toby Perkins MP Visits Local Lottery-Funded Projects In Chesterfield

Chesterfield MP, Toby Perkins experienced first-hand the results of over £2.7 million in good cause funding from the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) since 2007 when he visited two projects benefitting local people. Big Lottery Fund Head of Region for the East Midlands, Mick McGrath, accompanied Toby Perkins MP on the visit to see two groups [...]

Derby Road Residents turn to MP after losing car parking spaces

Derby Road Residents turn to MP after losing car parking spaces

Worried Chesterfield residents have enlisted the help of their local Member of Parliament, Toby Perkins, after their parking spaces were sold to Tesco. This followed the decision to allow the opening of a brand new Tesco Express store on the site of the former Angel public house on Derby Road, at which local people had [...]

Local transport charity gets MP backing for government grant

Local transport charity gets MP backing for government grant

Chesterfield Community and District Transport, a locally based charity which delivers bus services for hundreds of elderly and disabled members of the community, has warned that a government decision to axe vital grants could lead to its closure. Local Member of Parliament, Toby Perkins, is writing to the Coalition to demand that charities such as [...]

David Miliband visits Chesterfield

David Miliband visits Chesterfield

 Toby Perkins MP welcomed David Miliband to Chesterfield on Monday 23rd August as part of his Labour Party leadership campaign. David and Mr. Perkins spoke in front of around 150 Labour Party members and supporters at the impressive Market Hall in Chesterfield town centre after an informal meeting with councilors and party officers. David spoke about [...]

Toby Perkins with Eric Morton

MP Toby Perkins hails “cutting edge” Orthopaedic Wing at Chesterfield Royal

Labour Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, Toby Perkins, visited the new cutting edge orthopaedic wing of Chesterfield Royal Hospital during his meeting with Chief Executive Eric Morton. Mr. Perkins hailed the new project as “a top class addition to a great local hospital” and vowed to bring pressure to bear on the Coalition Government to [...]

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Hunloke Gardens will not be defeated by vandals, says community

Community volunteers and the local MP have warned mindless vandals that they won’t give up on their award winning community-based facility after a nighttime attack. Mr. Perkins met with Marion Wilcockson and volunteers at Hunloke Community Gardens, who have worked tirelessly over many years to make the site into such a focal point of the [...]

Toby Perkins with Eric Morton

MP Toby Perkins hails “cutting edge” Orthopaedic Wing at Chesterfield Royal

07 August 2010

Labour Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, Toby Perkins, visited the new cutting edge orthopaedic wing of Chesterfield Royal Hospital during his meeting with Chief Executive Eric Morton. Mr. Perkins hailed the new project as “a top class addition to a great local hospital” and vowed to bring pressure to bear on the Coalition Government to [...]

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Hunloke Gardens will not be defeated by vandals, says community

07 August 2010

Community volunteers and the local MP have warned mindless vandals that they won’t give up on their award winning community-based facility after a nighttime attack. Mr. Perkins met with Marion Wilcockson and volunteers at Hunloke Community Gardens, who have worked tirelessly over many years to make the site into such a focal point of the [...]

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Future Star gets backing of local MP Toby Perkins

07 August 2010

A Chesterfield girl, who was born with a life threatening heart defect is now one of the most promising football stars in the UK. Toby Perkins, Labour Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, is calling on local businesses to support Megan Tinsley, of Parkside School, who is widely seen as a rising star at the Sheffield [...]

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Council Scrutiny Panel recommends keeping open the Council’s community rooms at Wimborne Crescent and Monkwood Road

03 August 2010

Following widespread opposition and public protest from the community in the Dunston and Moor Areas, Chesterfield Borough Council’s decision to close seven of the Borough’s twelve community rooms was referred to the Council’s Scrutiny Panel for review.   At its meeting last week the Scrutiny Board recommended that two of the community rooms originally earmarked [...]

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MP Celebrates 10 years of “re-generation success story” at Hunloke Gardens

26 July 2010

Labour Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, Toby Perkins, hailed Hunloke Gardens as a “ten year regeneration success story” in Birdholme at the 10 Year Anniversary Celebrations event on Sunday 25th July. During the last decade the gardens have expanded, opening a shop on site, growing a wide range of fruit and vegetables, and attracting school [...]

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Perkins joins campaign to champion local pubs

26 July 2010

Toby Perkins, Labour Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, last week visited the Derby Tup on Sheffield Road as part of The Publican’s Proud of Pubs Week. Mr. Perkins met with the Tenant of ‘the Tup’ pub to champion the role it and many others play in the community, and to highlight the serious concerns of [...]

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I am Toby Perkins, Labour's Member of parliament for Chesterfield. I was elected on May 6th 2010.

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