nicolaswebb.com (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Lord Heseltine, Steven Norris, Tony Hawkhead (Groundwork UK) and Birmingham Council Leader Mike Whitby discussed the future for city governance. You may recall I mentioned recently that Lord Heseltine had endorsed directly elected mayors (or directly elected chief executives as he prefers to term them) he had not specified if this was on existing boundary lines or cross-boundary city regions.
Tory Reform Group (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
The intellectual highlight of the TRG’s conference programme is taking place as I write. Lord Heseltine, Steve Norris and Tony Hawkhead of Groundwork together with Mike Whitby, leader of Birmingham City Council, are the plan discussing the Future of Britain’s Cities. Call me biased of you want, but I am sure that their coments so far have [...]
nicolaswebb.com (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
The Centre for Cities (who's conference events I'm looking forward to) have blogged that the Conservatives are considering a policy of city region mayors. Lord Heseltine's Cities Taskforce endorsed the idea of directly elected city mayors, but stopped short of stating whether they would be on existing county boundaries, such as the Mayor of Torbay or cross-council such as the Mayor of London. In
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Lord Heseltine the former Tory cabinet minister and multimillionaire businessman has discovered his great grandfather died a pauper and was buried in an unmarked grave it has been revealed.
Uptown Girls RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Former fashion model puts Britain's only 'antiques mansion' on the ... Daily Mail, UK - 1 hour ago Celebrity clients included the late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, American actress Ava Gardner, former Conservative MP, Lord Heseltine, and Take That ...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
LORD Heseltine will address delegates at this year’s British Council of Shopping Centres’ conference in Liverpool.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Lord Heseltine's publishing empire Haymarket has acquired two specialist titles as part of a push to ride out the media downturn as the company marked its 51st year with record turnover of almost £250m.
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Covering BBC1's Question Time and This Week. Tonight's QT panel: James Purnell, Lord Heseltine, Sir Menzies Campbell, Piers Morgan and Rachel Johnson.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
IT WAS good to read the tribute by Sir Trevor Jones to Lord Heseltine on his visit to Liverpool on Tuesday. Merseyside owes a great deal to Michael Heseltine, who played such an important role in turning the city around from the chaos and incompetence of the Militant years.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 30/04/2008
LORD Heseltine hit the campaign trail today as his party tried to stage a comeback in Liverpool.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
It was Michael Heseltine, I think, who first produced the idea of having elected mayors. It was during a broadcast of Question Time when Margaret Thatcher was still Prime Minister. Lord Heseltine (as he was later to become) said he would not stand against her. A few weeks later, he did precisely that. He failed to become Prime Minister himself, but he did produce – or help to produce – Mr Ken Livingstone...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/12/2007
FORMER “minister for Merseyside” Lord Heseltine yesterday threw his weight behind the campaign to have an elected mayor for Liverpool.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/12/2007
FORMER "Minister for Merseyside" Michael Heseltine returned to Liverpool to launch a new book and exhibition about the River Mersey. Lord Heseltine was at the Albert Dock last night for the launch of Mersey: The River That Changed the World.
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 07/12/2007
Visiting Liverpool Lord Heseltine told ConservativeHome that "difficult economic times" lay ahead for Britain. Gordon Brown had squandered the legacy that Ken Clarke gave him, the former Deputy Prime Minister said, and that "there was no cushion" to ease the...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 08/11/2007
Acting Lib Dem leader Vince Cable is one of the panellists on tonight's edition of Question Time (broadcast on BBC1 and online from 10.35 pm GMT). He’ll be alongside Home Office minister Tony McNulty, former Tory deputy leader Lord Heseltine, the British-Egyptian novelist and political commentator Ahdaf Soueif, and the journalist and writer Douglas Murray. If [...]
