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Small shops seek action from MPs

The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS), which represents more than 33,500 small shops, will present a 10-point action plan to MPs including Rosie Winterton, minister for regional economic development and co-ordination at the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.

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Town hall fat cats to be named and shamed

In a speech to the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives, Rosie Winterton, the Local Government Minister, said that the country’s 475 councils had until the New Year to publish senior earners’ salaries, bonuses, pensions, perks and compensation pay-offs in their annual statement of accounts.

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Herefordshire Council welcomes government support for local markets

T his week’s announcement that government is to set up a new body to champion the interests of traditional local markets has been welcomed by Herefordshire Council. The announcement came from local government minister Rosie Winterton, who said it was essential that traditional markets survive and highlighted their “significant” economic and social benefits. Herefordshire...

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FactCheck: an all-white cabinet?

... - the Attorney General Baroness Scotland, children's minister Dawn Primarolo, and regions minister Rosie Winterton. Two are from an ethnic minority - Baroness Scotland, and transport minister Sadiq Khan, described by Brown as an Asian "cabinet minister".So if all of the possible attenders showed up in one go, the cabinet would be more diverse than inner circle (admittedly, not that...

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NS to meet minister over threat to press ads

Regional newspapers face a new blow with the possible loss of statutory ads from local authorities giving details of planning notices. Now the Newspaper Society is to meet Housing Minister John Healey to discuss planning notices and local authority publications as a consultation on publicising planning applications draws to a close. In the summer, the NS wrote to Minister for Local Government Rosie...

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Traditional street markets to receive greater protection

... that existing and new markets thrive and flourish. Related ArticlesThe move will be announced by Rosie Winterton, the Local Government Minister, and comes in response to a call in a recent report by MPs on the Commons Communities and Local Government Committee for the Government to do more to promote the country’s much-loved street markets. Miss Winterton will highlight the...

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MPs' expenses: 325 MPs told to 'pay up or explain'

... Revenue would levy substantial penalties as well.” Around 175 MPs have already repaid expenses. Rosie Winterton, the local government minister, paid back £8,000 of mortgage costs, while several Tory MPs including Sir Alan Haselhurst have repaid thousands of pounds they claimed for gardening. A list of the repayments will eventually be published for the public to scrutinise. MPs will...

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What goes around...

... tactic to Iain Dale either though. When The Mail on Sunday produced a sordid smear story about Rosie Winterton and John Prescott... guess who could hardly contain his glee in reproducing the whole piece of shit article for his readers? I don't suppose he thought for one second about just how hateful and hurtful a piece of journalism it was when he decided to print it out in full....

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Businesses get rate revaluation

... scheme, self funded by businesses, to limit and phase in any increases.Local government minister Rosie Winterton said: "The revaluation will make sure each business pays its fair contribution and no more - it will not raise a single extra penny for Government. "Most businesses will see an overall reduction in their rate bills next year, with some of the largest decreases in sectors...