Wrexham Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Wrexham MP Ian Lucas has welcomed Labour’s continued commitment to a hunting ban. And he has warned that the current hunting ban may be at risk under Troy plans. David Cameron has pledged to dedicate Parliamentary time to a bill scrapping the hunting ban as a priority if the Conservatives win the next election. Mr Lucas has [...]
Wrexham Blog (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Wrexham MP Ian Lucas has praised the work of Dynamic after attending the charity’s annual general meeting. The charity provides a range of out of school activities for children and young people with special needs throughout the Wrexham area. Working alongside the council, voluntary sector and community, the charity provides support for young people and helps [...]
Riley - thinking aloud (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
In a carefully spun press release issued yesterday the government said: "A new package of measures cutting the costs of new laws that will benefit businesses both immediately and in the longer term, was announced today by Business Minister Ian Lucas. "Businesses will benefit by timing the introduction of 26 regulations to take account of current economic circumstances. This will save them...
Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Corporate Rescue (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
I have returned from the Insolvency Service's (IS) one day Insolvency Rules Modernisation Stakeholder Conference at their Bloomsbury Street headquarters. The event was a great success and was particularly noteworthy for the wide participation of, inter alia , Insolvency Practitioners (IPs), solicitors, barristers and academics as well as other interested parties. On the academic front the attendees...
Plaid Wrecsam (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Readers of this blog will recall my petition to the National Assembly calling for Section 6 of the Welsh Language Act 1993 to be amended so that Members of Parliament are included in the list of public bodies covered by the Act. This follows Ian Lucas's failure to produce his Annual Report to his constituents bilingually. The Petitions Committee considered this petition yesterday and received legal...
Plaid Wrecsam (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
From today's Daily Post only three of North Wales's eleven Labour MP's and AM's have declared which candidate they favour. Two AM's Karen Sinclair and Ann Jones support the partisan uncompromising Huw Lewis whilst Albert Owen is backing Caerwyn Jones. I don't know about the remaining eight, Chris Ruane, Ian Lucas, Mark Tami, Martyn Jones, Betty Williams, Lesley Griffiths, Carl Sergeant and Sandy Mewies....
Wrexham Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
A company’s plan for an Aberystwyth to London rail service appear to contradict its own objections to an earlier service using the line. Wrexham MP Ian Lucas has written to the Office of the Rail Regulator to point out that Arriva Trains Wales’ bid to run services from Aberystwyth to London would use a line it [...]
Plaid Wrecsam (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
The shock decision not to site the proposed North Wales prison in Caernarfon is a huge blow to the local economy of that area. It's also an indictment of the way the UK government makes its decisions - presumably content to bring the project to what it saw as a Labour marginal without consulting or informing the local population. Now the seat appears beyond the grasp of the party, which hasn't even...
Plaid Wrecsam (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
That was the headline to an article in Wrexham Chronicle this week and refers to the 90th birthday of the well known Wrecsam Solicitors, Cyril Jones & Co. Present at the celebrations was our one and only Ian Lucas who was also a solicitor before he joined the gravy train in 2001. There however ends any similarity between them. Cyril Jones the founder was a socialist, a strong advocate for the poor,...
Wrexham Blog (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Wrexham MP Ian Lucas has warmly welcomed the appointment of Mark Polin as Chief Constable of North Wales Police. And he has said he looks “forward to a close working relationship” with Mr Polin in the coming months. Mr Lucas said: “I am very pleased that a successor to Richard Brunstrom has been announced by North Wales [...]
Wrexham Blog (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Wrexham MP and Business Minister Ian Lucas has welcomed the close ties between North East Wales and Airbus’ Filton plant. Mr Lucas, who is Under Secretary of State for Business and Regulatory Reform, visited the plant in Filton as part of his Ministerial duties. And he welcomed the close working relationships that the plant has with [...]
Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Corporate Rescue (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
It has become a busy time of the year for insolvency events. Next Wednesday (16th) there is the Nottingham Law School Insolvency Roundtable at Nottingham Trent University ( Joint conference on the intersection between insolvency law and business and accounting practice ), and now the Insolvency Service have published the details of a forthcoming Stakeholder Conference on Insolvency Rules Modernisation...
Wrexham Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2009
SUPERMARKETS whose trolleys are being dumped in Wrexham should be named and shamed, according to the town’s MP. Wrexham MP Ian Lucas spoke out after attending a meeting of the Caia Park Flood Prevention Group today. The group have had a long-running problem with abandoned trolleys causing problems – an issue which Mr Lucas has been [...]
Wrexham Blog (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
Wrexham MP Ian Lucas has praised the hard work of villagers in Gresford and Rossett after attending fetes in each village. Mr Lucas attended the Rossett Village Festival on Saturday and the Gresford Trust’s 60th anniversary celebrations yesterday, Bank Holiday Monday. Mr Lucas – who served as a community councillor in Gresford in the mid-80s – said [...]
Plaid Wrecsam (Free subscription) | 15/08/2009
Letter sent to Evening Leader, Wrexham Leader and Wrexham Chronicle. Dear Editor, We always comment that the summer is the silly season as far as the press is concerned, they have no real news stories to print so they can’t wait to print press releases by MP’s and AM’s claiming credit for success’s that they have played no part in. It is disingenuous for Ian Lucas to associate...
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