I hold regular community drop-ins across Leicester West, so that constituents can come along and talk to me about any issues or problems they have in their local area, or to let me know what they think about what’s happening nationally. My next community drop-ins are; The BRITE Centre – Friday […]
Liz has demanded a waste management firm does more to prevent smells from making lives a misery for residents on an estate.
Liz is angry about residents having to live with smell from a local recycling plant.
Last week, Firat Batmaz and Salim Tuncay from the Anatolia Cultural and Educational Society in Leicester West, and Havva Murat and Ilknur Kahraman from the Dialogue Society came to meet me in Parliament. The Dialogue Society helps bring communities together through discussion groups, training courses and grassroots community campaigns. I […]
On Wednesday 29th June, I joined campaigners from HeartLink at No 10 Downing Street to deliver their petition to keep children’s heart surgery at Glenfield Hospital. Heartlink is a charity that supports parents and families whose children suffer from a heart defect in the East Midlands, and they came to […]
On Saturday 25 June I went to Beaumont Lodge Neighbourhood Association’s Annual Community Funday, organised by Leo and Barbara Grant-Bennett. Leo and Barbara’s tireless work and dedication, along with their enthusiastic team of volunteers, has quite literally transferred an old barn in Beaumont Leys into a thriving community facility used […]
I recently spoke at a public meeting organised by the Leicester Civil Rights Movement and Action Advice Leicester about the Government’s cuts to legal aid. I believe legal aid is a fundamental component of our legal system. Ensuring people aren’t excluded from the courts because of a lack of finance […]
On 24th June I went to a ‘hustings’ debate organised by students at Leicester College. The students, who are adult learners doing the citizenship model on the pre-access course, were in two teams: Say No To Size Zero, who are campaigning to raise awareness about the dangers of unhealthy body […]
In her fortnightly Leicester Mercury column, Liz talks about the problems being caused by the Conservative led Governments changes to the NHS.
Liz joins campaigners trying to save the children’s heart centre at Glenfield Hospital have delivered a petition with more than 100,000 names to Downing Street.
Liz finds the spirit of the Co-operative and Labour movements’ pioneers in the community of Rowley Fields.
Liz joins Leicester heart campaigners as they take fight to Downing St.
