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Thank you for visiting my website where you will find all my news, articles and speeches, campaigns and read about how I spend my week in the European Parliament and the North East. Please contact me if you have an issue that I can help with. With best wishes, Fiona
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EVERY CHILD MUST BE ABLE TO LIVE FREE FROM DISCRIMINATION
Euro MEP for the North East Fiona Hall, has signed a nation-wide petition supporting Sarika Singh from South Wales, who has been excluded from school since November 2007 for refusing to stop wearing a religious bangle.
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MEPS VOTE FOR MORE RUBBISH RECYCLING
Although the North East might have seen the greatest improvement of any region in the country, in the percentage of household waste recycled from 2002-2006, new EU legislation will help the region aim higher in a bid to improve recycling rates for household rubbish across the UK.
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PLASTIC BAGS: RE-USE NOT ONE-USE SAYS LOCAL MEP
Durham MEP, Fiona Hall will be present today to support Durham retailers adding their signatures to the ‘Durham Agreement’, a campaign which urges Durham retailers to trim down on the number of free single-use carrier bags they distribute in shops around the city.
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LOCAL MEP ANSWERS CALLS FROM LOCAL BUSINESSES
Fiona Hall MEP for the North East of England has responded to a call from the North East branch of the Federation of Small Businesses by backing a European written declaration which requests the implementation of proper support for small and medium enterprises (SME) within the Small Business Act, currently going through the European Parliament.
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HONOUR YOUR COMMITMENT TO THE WORLD’S POOREST SAYS HALL
British NGO, Debt AIDS Trade Africa (DATA), has launched a petition calling on European leaders to make good on their promise to help the world’s poorest people.
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MEPS PRESS FOR AN END TO CONTAMINATED WATER IN EUROPE
Thirty-three pollutants likely to be found in rivers, lakes and coastal waters must be reduced or phased out completely depending on the level of risk involved, MEPs have said.
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HALL BACKS CAMPAIGN TO RE-OPEN VITAL TRAIN LINE, CALLING FOR A SHIFT FROM ROAD TO RAIL TRAVEL
MEP for Northumberland Fiona Hall has written a letter to Rail Minister Tom Harris MP ahead of his visit to the region, urging him to re-open the Ashington, Blyth and Tyne railway line for passenger use.
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Sign the petition calling for the UK Government to push for a Europe wide ban on incandescant light bulbs
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Fiona Hall MEP
