http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Vincent Cable en-GB Vincent Cable http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2008 Vincent Cable 2008-09-05T19:59+01:00 United Kingdom http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001488/vincent_cables_surgery.html Dr. Cable is away this week but in his absence Cllr Munira Wilson will be covering his surgery at 2a Lion Road, between 5 and 7.30pm on Friday 5th September. 2008-09-03T13:19+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001487/borough_tops_debt_league.html According to the debt/credit reference agency, Experian, residents in the borough of Richmond have the highest level of personal debt in the country: £53,533 per head (the lowest is Chesterfield with £12,192). 2008-08-28T12:14+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001486/royal_mail_relocation_plans.html On Wednesday [27th August] the Royal Mail will set out their plans for relocating the sorting office from central Twickenham to a new site on Rugby Road. 2008-08-26T16:50+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001485/rent_deposit_scheme_heads_off_homelessness.html Vincent Cable, MP, visited staff and residents at the newly refurbished Spear hostel for the homeless on Kew Road Richmond. 2008-08-26T16:49+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001484/strawberry_hill_commuters_top_objector_to_station_staff_cutbacks.html Rail commuters from Strawberry Hill lodged the largest number of objections to the cutbacks in station hours proposed by SW Trains in a survey of five local stations carried out by Vincent Cable MP. 2008-08-19T14:28+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001483/mp_meets_bank_bosses_over_local_closure.html MP Vincent Cable met Barclays bosses this week to discuss the planned closure of the Barclays branch in Hampton. Next month, when it is due to shut, there will be only one bank branch locally: Lloyds. 2008-08-19T14:27+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001482/recognition_for_local_carers.html MP Vincent Cable visited the borough's Carers Centre in Twickenham last week together with Debbie Pippard of the National Lottery and trustee councillor Nicola Urquhart, to discuss the centre's work in the wake of a lottery award. 2008-08-19T14:27+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001481/mp_meets_bremner_bird_and_fortune.html The team who produce the popular satirical Channel 4 show this week met local MP Vincent Cable. Vincent Cable has made occasional appearances on the show as 'Mystic Vince' who correctly anticipated the current downturn in the housing market and the 'credit crunch'. 2008-08-19T14:26+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001480/is_airtrack_a_threat_to_local_services.html Local MPs Vincent Cable and Susan Kramer have met both Network rail and South West trains managers to discuss local services and in particular the implications of the proposed Airtrack link between the airport and Waterloo. 2008-08-12T11:45+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001479/crane_river_parks_hounslow_bottleneck.html Vincent Cable, MP, has intervened with Hounslow Council and British Land, the owners of Feltham Marshalling Yards, to try to unlock a difficult land ownership issue which stands in the way of the ambitious Crane Riverside Metropolitan Park. 2008-08-12T11:45+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001478/mp_seeks_assurance_from_academy_swedes.html Last week Vincent Cable, MP, met the UK head of Kunskapsskolan, Steve Bolingbroke, to discuss its plans for new academies at Hampton Community College and Whitton. 2008-08-11T16:04+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001477/threat_to_future_of_top_local_manufacturer.html The American owners (Alta) of local, Twickenham, engineering company Twiflex are planning to close the Twickenham factory by September 2009 and relocate to Bedford. 2008-07-29T13:54+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001476/barclays_leave_hampton.html Barclays are to close their branch in Hampton upsetting some of their longstanding customers. 2008-07-29T11:55+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001475/warnings_over_local_polyclinics.html Vincent Cable, MP, has warned of the danger that the borough's very effective primary care built around GPs and the Teddington Memorial hospital will be disrupted by "government dogma" about the need for polyclinics. 2008-07-29T11:54+01:00 http://www.vincentcable.org.uk/news/001474/vincent_cable_publishes_his_expenses.html 2007-2008 2008-07-25T12:17+01:00