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20 Most Recent Press Articles
Saving Energy - You Can Do It
Written by Lorely Burt MP and published in Solihull News - 26th January 2007 on Fri 26th Jan 2007
Did you know you can get a home efficiency report from the Central Midlands Energy Efficiency Advice Centre (CMEEAC), funded by the Energy Saving Trust, on how to make your home more fuel efficient - and it's completely free? You complete the questions, send your answers off and a detailed report comes back with advice on the most important, and cost effective things you can do to reduce your fuel bill and help reduce carbon emissions.
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Lorely Listens
Published in Solihull Observer and Gazette on Thu 16th Nov 2006
There can be few sweeter sights than that of very small children dancing. Six little girls danced the dance of light for the guests at the Hindu Council celebration for Diwali at Millenium Point on Sunday, carrying tiny lights and in their pretty sequinned dresses - the grownups were entranced.
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Lorely Listens
Written by Lorely Burt MP and published in Solihull Observer and Gazette on Thu 16th Nov 2006
There can be few sweeter sights than that of very small children dancing. Six little girls danced the dance of light for the guests at the Hindu Council celebration for Diwali at Millenium Point on Sunday, carrying tiny lights and in their pretty sequinned dresses - the grownups were entranced.
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Lorely Listens: Fear is the great Barrier
Written by Lorely Burt and published in Solihull Times on Wed 15th Nov 2006
I met three angels last week. They looked mortal, but I was assured by the patients and carers of the Lung Cancer Support Group that they were real angels because the amazing care and help they gave to patients and their loved ones.
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Lorely Listens
Written by Lorely Burt MP and published in Solihull Times on Wed 25th Oct 2006
Lorely's Law finally had its second reading in Parliament last Friday. In an intense debate lasting three and a half hours MPs from all sides of the house discussed the Bill and the problems which had moved me to bring it forward after only a few weeks of being an MP.
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Lorely Listens
Written by Lorely Burt MP and published in Solihull Observer on Wed 18th Oct 2006
A cemetery may be a place for the dead, but it is a highly significant place for many of the living who visit to remember and honour their loved ones. So any disturbance to the tranquillity, let alone to the memorial stone, is bound to be upsetting.
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LORELY LISTENS - SOLIHULL TIMES
Published on Wed 16th Aug 2006
Hospital parking charges have been the subject of complaints from many of you recently. One constituent had paid over £300 in hospital parking charges over the course of three months' treatment for cancer, and one of my staff who is disabled had to pay parking charges to park in disabled bays - 'it wasn't cheap,' she said.
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LORELY'S LIFE - SOLIHULL OBSERVER
Published on Thu 10th Aug 2006
Every year I take my mum and daughter away on holiday. As the years go by, mum's mobility gets a bit slower and her walking range a little shorter, so this year we opted for a 'Nordic Odyssey' aboard the QE2.
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LORELY LISTENS - SOLIHULL TIMES
Published on Wed 2nd Aug 2006
Is our health service being privatised by stealth? That's a question which is exercising many minds at the moment, not least of whom are Solihull Pensioners' Convention which I attended last week.
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LORELY LISTENS, SOLIHUL TIMES
Published on Sun 23rd Jul 2006
Are you fed up with the hot weather yet? We British are the butt of jokes all over the world because we talk about the weather all the time. But following a week in which we had the hottest July day on record, I feel justified.
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LORELY'S LIFE, SOLIHULL OBSERVER
Published on Thu 13th Jul 2006
For someone as useless at direction-finding as me, the satellite navigation system or sat nav has revolutionised my life. Some now come as a part of new cars, or like mine, they sit in a little box on your windscreen in a cradle attached by a sucker.
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LORELY'S LIFE, SOLIHULL OBSERVER
Published on Thu 13th Jul 2006
For someone as useless at direction-finding as me, the satellite navigation system or sat nav has revolutionised my life. Some now come as a part of new cars, or like mine, they sit in a little box on your windscreen in a cradle attached by a sucker.
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LORELY LISTENS…
Written by Lorely Burt MP and published in Solihull Times on Wed 5th Jul 2006
Spending a penny just became more difficult in Solihull. Like many residents I woke to the news that Solihull will be closing toilets throughout the Borough to save less than 1% of its budget with dismay.
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LORELY'S LIFE
Written by Lorely Burt MP and published in Solihull Observer on Thu 29th Jun 2006
One of the best jobs an MP gets to do, in my opinion, is visiting schools. Children never fail to inspire or surprise me with their attitude to life and original viewpoints.
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Lorely Listens
Written by Lorely Burt and published in Solihull Times on Wed 21st Jun 2006
A small bombshell was quietly dropped in the form of an advert appearing in the pages of a local paper over recent days. I hadn't spotted it because I don't scan the public notices as a rule. If there's any planning matter which is going to affect the lives of people in Solihull I generally get it from the planning application list.
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Lorely Listens
Written by Lorely Burt MP and published in Solihull Times on Wed 10th May 2006
Saturdays are normally a very busy day for me, as I do a surgery in Touchwood and then race over to Shirley Library to do a second one.
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Lorely's Life
Written by Lorely Burt MP and published in Solihull Observer on Thu 27th Apr 2006
I was intrigued to receive a phone message from the Sunday Times this week. It read 'As Solihull has one of the best records of good youth behaviour in the country, they'd like to talk to you about how Solihull has achieved this'.
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Lorely Listens 20th March
Written by Lorely Burt and published in Solihull Gaurdian on Mon 20th Mar 2006
Birmingham International Airport has now been officially confirmed as the Midlands airport destined for expansion under the Government's airport expansion plans. 31st March is the deadline for anyone wishing to contribute to the Birmingham Airport consultation on the so-called 'Masterplan'.
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