Heathrow: your last chance
	10:28am Fri 8 Feb 08
	"AS pensioners, the security of our pensions depends directly on the long-term success of British Airways, and that... depends on the success of Heathrow."

	Opportunity for fairness lost
	10:26am Fri 8 Feb 08
	ON Thursday, January 31, Parliament debated the Government's National Insurance Bill, which will set the earnings limits for paying National Insurance contributions. Sounds like a dry bureaucratic issue but actually this is a key decision on whether the Government is serious about tackling poverty and inequality in today's Britain.

	Heathrow: duty to speak up
	10:23am Fri 8 Feb 08
	ON Thursday, January 31, I attended a public meeting to protest against the planned third runway at Heathrow. The evidence produced by council officers and campaigners was devastating in terms of the impact that this will have on quality of life in Hillingdon.

	Let professionals work in peace
	2:05pm Thu 10 Jan 08
	A HAPPY 2008 to all Hillingdon Times readers and their families, and I hope that it is not just happy but healthy too.

	A year for campaigning
	2:03pm Thu 10 Jan 08
	I'M back into Parliament with a bang this week after a great Christmas break with my family. Last week I listened to Gordon Brown's new year message with a lot of concern.

	Keeping cancer care local
	2:00pm Thu 10 Jan 08
	THANK you to supporters of Mount Vernon Before Christmas, I met with a minister at the Department of Health to deliver a simple message: the community I represents wants to keep cancer services at Mount Vernon, and not see them moved into Hertfordshire.

	Lost trust and broken promises
	3:00pm Thu 6 Dec 07
	IT almost seems that the Monty Python team are in charge at Westminster. Not only has HM Revenue and Customs lost discs containing millions of people's personal data and bank details, including my wife's, we now find that the Government may never be repaid in full for the £24billion that it lent to Northern Rock.

	This is not a done deal
	2:59pm Thu 6 Dec 07
	On Thursday, November 28 the Government announced the start of the consultation for the expansion of Heathrow Airport.

	Heathrow: time to say no
	2:52pm Thu 6 Dec 07
	The Government is clearly in favour of a third runway at Heathrow. Yes, there will be a consultation but its mind is made up.

	Penalised for prudent spending?
	6:06pm Mon 12 Nov 07
	WHEN I first heard Gordon Brown's latest plan to claw back money from those schools which had saved some of their annual budget, I had to check my calendar to see if it was April Fool's Day.

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