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Our small firms need help in face of credit crunch – Nigel Adams
Nigel backs a series of measures needed to stop local firms going under Selby & Ainsty’s prospective Conservative MP, Nigel Adams this week called for more action to help struggling loca...

Nigel Adams urges council to keep bin collections weekly
Selby’s prospective Conservative MP, Nigel Adams this week called on Selby District Council to adopt new Conservative proposals that would end the Government’s unpopular and damaging polic...

Tockwith waste company withdraw application
Tockwith waste company BCB Environmental has withdrawn its controversial application to build an £18m energy-from-waste incinerator on the Marston Moor Business Park. The company says it will r...

Nigel Adams: Conservative Party Conference Report
I was pleased that last week's Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham was attended by many people from the Selby and Ainsty area and most would agree that in the face of a worsening financial cri...

Nigel Adams welcomes Judges Eco Town ruling
Selby’s prospective Conservative MP has welcomed news that campaigners in Warwickshire have been granted a judicial review in it’s campaign to stop an Eco Town in their area which could si...

Shock rise in North Yorkshire Violent crime figures
From the Selby Times 10/09/08 SHOCKING home office figures showing a huge increase in crime in North Yorkshire since 1998 have been condemned by Selby's Conservative Party. The district's prospectiv...

Nigel's US Presidential contest report: Has America discovered it's own Margaret Thatcher?
One of the most important US presidential races in history has entered its final leg as John McCain accepted the Republican nomination at it's convention in St Paul, Minnesota. On November 4th, Americ...

A dose of Festival Fever
The first thing that struck me walking past the thousands of tents in the camp sites on the way to the arena at Bramham Park was not the mud or the very happy campers but the smell. But I guess after ...

Over 7000 NHS Operations cancelled at York Hospitals last year
New information uncovered under the Freedom of Information Act on NHS operations last year reveals that over 7000 operations were cancelled at York Hospitals for non clinical reasons last year, a huge...