Andy Reed MP (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Loughborough MP Andy Reed officially launched the 2012 Strategy for Leicestershire last week. Andy Reed MP, who also Chairs the County Sports Partnership for Leicestershire has agreed to be the 2012 Ambassador for 2012. The strategy aims to make sure all parts of the county gets the most out of the 2012 games. Andy said "I doubt anybody can have failed to have been impressed by the Olympics and paralympics...
ECB (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Loughborough Town went clear at the top of the Everards Leicestershire Premier League and remain on course for an unprecedented treble following their seven wicket victory away to Illston Abbey.
Polyolbion (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Here's the new Polyverse Poets page - as you'll see, it's a network for East Midlands based writers, and also contains links to the Polyverse Festival page (the event will take place in Loughborough in July next year). Have a browse...
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Three MCC university cricketers have become the first to sign internships with counties. Johan Malcolm from Loughborough has joined Leicestershire, Oxford's Duncan Bradshaw heads to Essex and Cambridge's Kunal Jogia links up with Derbyshire, all on three-month internships.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Susan Scott emerged from a long dark tunnel into the sunlight of blustery Leicestershire last night. Running as a guest in the Loughborough International, she smashed her personal best to win the 1500 metres.
Andy Reed MP (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
Former internationals Darren Garforth, Freddie Tuilagi and Mike Umaga will play in Leicestershire club Birstall's annual President's Day fixture for a side being raised by Andy Reed, the Labour MP for Loughborough. Garforth, the former England and Leicester Tigers prop, and the former Samoa pair of Tuilagi and Umaga, now head coach of National Two club Nuneaton, will face Birstall's first XV on Sunday...
Andy Reed MP (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Loughborough MP Andy Reed has today welcomed that fact that more young people in Leicestershire are staying on in education or training after their GCSEs thanks to the success of a new allowance. The Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was launched by the Government across England in 2004 to support young people from low and middle income families who stay on in full-time education at 16. Latest...
Andy Reed MP (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Local MP Andy Reed has welcomed the official opening of Loughborough University's new £15 million Sports Technology Institute. The Institute is an exciting new venture with East Midlands Development Agency (emda) to boost enterprise in the sport and leisure sector and develop cutting-edge technology to assist the country's elite athletes in their preparation for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic...
Windows And Doors Blog (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
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D'log :: blogging no (Free subscription) | 19/01/2008
The East Midlands is to hold its first Writing Industries Conference, at Loughborough University on the 9th Feb 08. There will be panel discussions, and also one-to-one advice chats (there’s one for SF; sign up for one by 25th Jan) are available for authors. Tickets cost £32/£24. And talking of the East Midlands, if you can't [...]
Andy Reed MP (Free subscription) | 18/01/2008
Andy Reed Mp today met with campaigners in Loughborough pushing for a new 'through school' system of 11-16 schools. Leicestershire County Council have adopted the 11-16 principle in the Melton area of the County and look likely to agree the principle across the rest of the county in a shake up of education. "Clearly there appear to be some educational benefits of a 11-16 system and following the meeting...
Andy Reed MP (Free subscription) | 17/12/2007
Loughborough MP Andy Reed welcomed news today that Leicestershire pensioners from the collapsed BUSM scheme are to get greater help following an announcement from the Labour government today. Some 125,000 workers who lost pensions when their employers went bust before 2005 are to be given greater help, the government announced today. Some of them are part of the collapsed BUSM scheme in Leicestershire....
Andy Reed MP (Free subscription) | 18/10/2007
Loughborough MP Andy Reed has acted swiftly to defend the provision of East Midlands news services currently provided by ITV. Under new proposals being put forward by ITV PLC the current dedicated East Midlands news services would be ended. Instead a single news service is being proposed, which spans the geographical area covering the whole of the Midlands region, from Shrewsbury and Warwick to Newark...
Andy Reed MP (Free subscription) | 05/10/2007
Andy Reed MP has welcomed the news that Big Lottery funding has benefited more groups in Loughborough. Last month Big Lottery Fund in the East Midlands announced that organisations in Sileby had been awarded significant grants in the latest round of awards. Firstly Silbey Photographic Society has been awarded over £4,000 for a project which will enable them to purchase a digital projector, enabling...
