The Island’s MP Andrew Turner is encouraging local businesses to register an interest to undertake work for EAGA installing heating and insulation to Island households on qualifying benefits. EAGA who administer the Government’s ‘Warm Front’ grant scheme has announced that it is seeking a number of new contractors for the scheme…
Andrew Turner the Island’s MP has written to DEFRA, to seek a firm undertaking that the needs of the Island will be taken into account in looking at the future of the Yarmouth to Lymington ferry service. He has also tabled a series of Parliamentary Questions about the operation of the ferry service…
Isle of Wight MP Andrew Turner, has this week raised questions in a special debate in the House of Commons of the difficulties faced by the six Island Councillors who are under investigation by the Standards Board for England…
Isle of Wight MP Andrew Turner, pays tribute to Brian Mosdell who died last Thursday. Cllr. Mosdell had served as the Councillor for Newchurch since June 2005. Although originally elected as a Conservative he had more recently sat as an independent councillor…
The Island’s MP, Andrew Turner, has called for the Office of Fair Trading to investigate the takeover of Somerfield stores on the Isle of Wight by the Co-operative supermarket group. Earlier this year, the Co-op made a £1.5 billion acquisition of the Somerfield grocery store chain. Currently, on the Island there are ten Co-op and eight Somerfield stores…
Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, has voiced support for ‘balanced migration’, following the launch of a cross-party parliamentary group calling for a sustainable immigration policy…
Island MP, Andrew Turner, today welcomed an extension for responses to a scoping report for a planned wind farm, which may be built at Cheverton, on the Isle of Wight. This is the third proposal for a wind farm on the site of which the project has only recently become public knowledge…
Isle of Wight MP Andrew Turner,has called for caution and a careful review of the introduction of military-style Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) by police forces around the country. This scheme may be adopted in other areas of the country but there has been little discussion as to the range of uses for this technology and its legitimate limits…
