http://www.islandmp.org Conservative Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_285.php The Islands MP, Andrew Turner, recently hosted an event at Westminster for Young Chamber UK. Young Chamber was founded on the Isle of Wight in 2001 with the vision of connecting young people, between the ages of 11 19, directly with local businesses and employers. In fact, over the last four years, Young Chamber has enabled 336,516 students from over 300 schools across the country to partici Fri, 11 May 2012 16:04:16 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_284.php The Islands MP, Andrew Turner, is encouraging Island youngsters to consider the full range of options open to them when they leave school this year. Many bright students feel that they must go to university in order to get onto the career ladder, but this is not always the case. Mr Turner said:There is plenty of information available to help those who want to go to university to make th Tue, 08 May 2012 17:30:03 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_283.php The Islands MP yesterday supported an attempt to introduce a Bill calling for Halal and Kosher meat to be clearly labelled at the point of sale.Early last year Andrew Turner wrote to Island supermarkets asking whether they sold Halal or Kosher meat, in which animals are killed by a single cut to the throat and bleed to death without being prestunned. The issue had been raised with him by a Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:02:21 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_282.php Andrew Turner is asking Islanders to let him know about any problems they are experiencing with reception of BBC TV or radio problems.The Islands MP has been invited to meet the BBC Director of Distribution, Alix Pryde next Wednesday 25th April and wants to take advantage of the opportunity to raise with him any issues or problems that Islanders have. Mr Turner has already been contacted b Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:39:16 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_281.php Andrew Turner, the Islands MP, has posed the question of whether larger shops on the Island should be permitted to stay open for longer whilst the Olympic Games are on this summer. He has spoken out following plans announced by the Government to allow all shops to open longer on Sundays, throughout the Games period. Mr Turner is interested in hearing the views of Islanders on this.The Chancel Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:38:01 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_280.php Andrew Turner, the Islands MP, has expressed his concerns over new surveillance laws proposed by the Government. It is feared the legislation, which aims to make it easier for security services to investigate serious crime and terrorism, could encroach on civil liberties. It has been reported that proposals would provide communications data accumulated from the phone calls, texts, emails and the Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:36:03 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_279.php Andrew Turner, the Islands MP has welcomed a response from the Boundary Commission following criticism about the way in which they published responses to their consultation on the new parliamentary boundaries. From today it is possible to identify which responses on their website relate to individual constituencies. Previously the 5,000 responses for the South East region had been put togethe Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:37:56 +0000 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_278.php The Islands MP Andrew Turner has welcomed the Prime Ministers announcement this week of additional capital funding of 2.2m to address a backlog of maintenance at St Marys Hospital and the purchase of new equipment. The money will be made available over two years 1m in 201112 and 1.2m in 201213 and is in addition to the planned capital funding for the two years just over 12m alloca Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:11:08 +0000 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_277.php February is National Heart Month. The Islands MP, Andrew Turner, is supporting it and encouraging Islanders to join in on National Wear Red day on Friday February 24th to raise funds for the life saving work of the British Heart Foundation BHF.During National Heart Month the BHF encourages people to think about their own hearts and the hearts of those around them. By wearing red on Nation Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:11:05 +0000 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_276.php The Department of Work and Pensions today announced that they will be making cold weather payments to all eligible people on the Island for last week.As cold weather spells come and go in the UK, those entitled to Cold Weather Payments receive extra money to cover additional costs for heating bills. Residents entitled to the payments include pensioners as well as those on means tested benefit Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:19:25 +0000 GMT