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Martin Hemingway

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Council tax

A MILLION jobs for Britain

UN support for Green 'Just Transition'

Vote for a Green set of values

Government fails region on green jobs

You can't just blame the banks, Gordon!

Support for organic, local food during recession is “vital”

04 DEC 08

Youtube (4mins): The huge quantities of meat we consume cost more than we think. CWF on livestock and the environment. Help make it popular. 

Veteran antiwar campaigner to face weeks in prison over Christmas and the New Year.  

Chancellor follows failed a policy and not a successful one

31 NOV 2008

Leslie Rowe, Reducing VAT will cost business an estimated £300m to make changes.

Disarming David Miliband: or why does Britain have WMD?

26 NOV 2008

I asked, ‘Does Great Britain want to be on the moral high ground? If so, why do we want a new Trident?’ - But I was shocked by his answer.  

Public health and proposed EU pesticide ban

16 NOV 2008

Martin Hemingway on the BBC Politics Show. 

Georgina Downs' High Court win shows residents do suffer harm from pesticides. UK policy does not actually comply yet with the EU directive.

Women in Green Politics meeting, Huddersfield

11 NOV 2008

Shan Oakes: Many women politicians are achieving at high levels, but there are still far fewer women than men at all levels of political life.

Green pledge to bring green jobs

12 NOV 2008

We should already have created more than 250,000 jobs in renewable energy. Our failure to develop this industry means we are lagging behind, with only 26,000 green energy jobs at most.

Companies profit by selling nature back to us

10 NOV 2008

Shan Oakes in Yorkshire Post.

NHS must not be two tier system dividing rich and poor

10 NOV 2008

The founding principle of the NHS was equal care for all. Allowing patients to top-up their NHS treatment with private care will benefit a few but will create a two tier system.

Shan Oakes: Obama, a hope long overdue

09 NOV 2009

Energy minister challenged on airport priority

06 OCT 2009

Martin Hemingway on Ed Miliband's climate wrecking strategy

Hotel threatens ancient South Bank woodland

02 OCT 2008

Shan Oakes speaks out.