Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, joined the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) on Monday 10 February as the charity crushed hundreds of items of unwanted ivory to help protect elephants from the deadly ivory trade.
IFAW destroyed around 100kgs of ivory items ranging from whole elephant tusks to carvings and jewellery in spectacular fashion in London to raise awareness of the ivory trade and show support for elephant protection ahead of a major international summit on the issue.
Alarmingly, an elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory. It is...
Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, attended an event at the House of Commons highlighting the new jobs and extra contribution to public finances that would be generated by scrapping the super tax on wine and spirits.
Organised by the Wine and Spirit Trade Association, the event helped publicise independent research by Ernst & Young, which has found that 6000 new jobs would be created and an extra £230 million generated for the public finances if the super tax were scrapped in the March Budget.
The Wine and Spirit Trade Association, the Scotch Whisky Association...
The Arctic 30 have been told they cannot leave Russia and return home for Christmas despite a ruling by an international court ordering their release.
The environmental charity Greenpeace has revealed that Russia investigative committee has written to one of its activists- Anne Mie Jensen from Denmark - indicating that they are not free to leave the country.
The charity’s lawyers have said that they expect this to be the case for all of the non-Russian members of the Arctic 30, including six Britons.
Three from Devon, Alexandra Harris, Iain Rogers and Kieron Bryan...
Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, has pledged his support for Halve It, a national coalition campaign that aims to halve late diagnosis and undiagnosed HIV in the UK by 2015.
At the Halve It World AIDS Day parliamentary drop-in session on the 27 November, Neil met with key members of the campaign’s steering group, including leading HIV clinicians, and CEOs of patient and policy organisations. He discussed with them Halve It’s aims and achievements to date, and the campaign’s compelling case for HIV to remain a public health priority in the UK. The event, which marked the...
A ‘National Day of Action’, coordinated by the Student Assembly Against Austerity group (SAAA), is taking place today (20th November 2013) on university campuses all over the country. This comes as a response to Government plans to privatise the Student Loans Company by 2015. In June of this year, in fact, the Government announced their aim to raise £15 billion from the sale of public assets by 2020. Hundreds of students and graduates from 26 campuses all over the country will take part in peaceful action against the sell-off, with activities including ‘debt obstacle courses’, banner drops...
The winners of a region-wide mathematics competition, run by Exeter Mathematics School, were awarded their prizes by the Secretary of State for Education, Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, in a ceremony held on Thursday 7 November at the Department for Education.
The overall winners, from The Royal High School, Bath, demonstrated their mathematical and communications skills by providinga solution to ‘Bezout’s Buckets’ in an entertaining fashion.
The winning video: http://youtu.be/8vO_EcCW4jo
The competition, which was open to all secondary schools in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset...
Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, has joined leading UK charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s call to make the issue of access to drugs a top priority, and help put breast cancer back on the agenda. Neil Parish joined more than 70 MPs at a reception hosted by Breakthrough Breast Cancer on Tuesday 8 October at the House of Commons. There, the charity called on the Government to bring about a new focus on breast cancer, with a priority of introducing an equitable system through which effective new treatments are routinely made available to patients. Earlier this year Breakthrough...
Exeter Labour Party's HQ at Clifton Hill was bustling with people from every continent at its 'Multicultural Lunch' with Ben Bradshaw on Saturday 28 September.
Ben, Labour Party members and councillors including Exeter City Council leader Cllr Pete Edwards, his deputy Cllr Rachel Sutton and Labour Group leader on Devon County Council, Cllr Richard Westlake, got a flavour of life as experienced by members of Exeter's varied and growing communities, as they answered questions on a wide range of issues.
A lively debate was followed by the sharing of food brought by the...
Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, has pledged to take action to support the 800,000 people living with dementia across the UK. Neil Parish joined 200 other MPs and representatives from Alzheimer’s Society in Portcullis House, Westminster on Tuesday 10th September to provide a handwritten statement of the action they will take to support people with dementia and their carers. Neil Parish pledged to help tackle the stigma attached to dementia and raise awareness to improve diagnosis rates in their constituency. Neil Parish said: “Devon is a beautiful county and many elderly people...
Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, has joined the fight against breast cancer by taking part in Breast Cancer Campaign’s biggest (and pinkest) fundraiser, wear it pink day. Over the last 10 years wear it pink has raised a staggering £23 million and on Friday 25 October 2013 people will come together in schools, colleges and businesses throughout the country to raise vital funds for Breast Cancer Campaign’s lifesaving research. Neil Parish MP says “Every year in the UK around 50,000 women and around 400 men are diagnosed with breast cancer. Sadly 12,000 women and 80 men die from this...
