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20 Most Recent News Stories
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Thu 4th Mar 2010
Local MP Michael Moore has welcomed the announcement that a £3 million Severe Weather Grant Scheme will be extended to provide support to Borders farmers whose property was damaged during the most recent period of heavy snow.
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Tue 2nd Mar 2010
SECRETARY OF STATE AGREES TO MEET BORDERS DELEGATION
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Tue 2nd Mar 2010
Local MP Michael Moore is urging the Government to change its Clean Energy Cash-Back scheme to ensure that early energy innovators in the Borders can benefit from the scheme.
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Mon 1st Mar 2010
Here are some highlights of what I am doing this week:
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Thu 25th Feb 2010
Borders MP Michael Moore has hit out at Ministers over changes to music copyright licence rules that could cost the UK voluntary sector more than £20 million.
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Wed 24th Feb 2010
Borders MP Michael Moore is backing calls from Scottish farmers' groups for a moratorium on penalties for breaches of the EU sheep identification rules that came into force at the start of 2010.
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Tue 23rd Feb 2010
Continued problems in accessing finance on reasonable term and uncertainty over the future of skills training has left the future of the Borders manufacturing sector in doubt, according to local MP Michael Moore.
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Tue 23rd Feb 2010
Changes to voting rules which would help ensure Borders servicemen and women operating abroad have the opportunity to vote in the forthcoming General Election are required urgently, according to local MP Michael Moore.
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Mon 22nd Feb 2010
Local MP Michael Moore is warning officials at Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) that their decision to sever funding ties with the Lloyds TSB Foundation in Scotland could have severe consequences for the voluntary sector in the Borders.
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Thu 18th Feb 2010
Local Parliamentarians Michael Moore MP and Jeremy Purvis MSP have slammed Ministers for their failure to protect jobs in the Borders after statistics revealed that unemployment in the south of Scotland has continued to rise despite the recession having technically come to an end.
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Wed 17th Feb 2010
Borders MP Michael Moore has signed a Parliamentary motion calling for an urgent review of cold weather contingency planning after the publication of a report from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) which criticised the Government's response to the recent snow.
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Wed 17th Feb 2010
The decision by Scottish Borders Housing Association to end the warden services in sheltered accommodation at the end of March came under fire again in Hawick on Tuesday.
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Wed 17th Feb 2010
Job losses and the need for improved skills training for workers in the south of Scotland will be on the agenda at Westminster next week after local MP Michael Moore was able to secure a Parliamentary debate on the future of manufacturing in the Borders.
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Wed 17th Feb 2010
Local MP Michael Moore is encouraging staff and pupils at primary schools across the Borders to enter a competition which is helping to promote the use of information technology in their local communities.
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Mon 15th Feb 2010
Borders MP Michael Moore is encouraging all of his constituents to consider taking part in 'The Big Swap' and support Fairtrade Fortnight 2010. This year's event will run from 22 February until 7 March.
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Mon 15th Feb 2010
Parliament is in recess this week and I shall be at home in the constituency. Here are some highlights of what I will be doing in the Borders this week:
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Fri 12th Feb 2010
Local MP Michael Moore will be pressing the case for a Borders jobs summit after securing a meeting with the Secretary of State for Scotland to discuss the recent increase in redundancies across the south of Scotland.
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Fri 12th Feb 2010
Local MP Michael Moore has called on Ministers to force UK banks to meet their lending obligations to small and medium-sized businesses in the Borders.
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Wed 10th Feb 2010
Sir Alan Beith, Liberal Democrat MP for Berwick upon Tweed, and Mike Moore, Liberal Democrat MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, have voiced their concerns over proposals to reduce search and rescue cover provided by RAF Boulmer to day time only, once the Government's SAR harmonisation plan comes into effect in 2012.
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Tue 9th Feb 2010
Local MP Michael Moore has written to BBC chiefs urging them to reconsider the timetable for the digital upgrade of the Hawick radio mast. His letter follows a meeting of the Borders Digital Forum last week where it emerged that 'paperwork issues' could mean it is 18 months before the mast is ready.
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