Virendra Sharma MP

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• Virendra Sharma MP condemns decision to execute Balwant Singh

  Virendra Sharma today condemned the news that the planned execution of Balwant Singh will go ahead, in spite of a review of a petition for clemency, submitted by campaigners and endorsed by Senior Indian Government officials, calling for his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. Balwant Singh had been 17 years into his life sentence for assassinating former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, when a controversial...

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• Virendra Sharma MP joins the Southall Big Conversation

  I have joined the Southall Big Conversation which, over the next six months, will be engaging all sections of the community, with decision makers including the Council, the police, business leaders, and other stakeholders to set the direction for the future of Southall. On Wednesday 14th March 2012 I joined residents young and old, Councillors, community groups, business and religious representatives at a Big Ideas event initiated by Ealing Council...

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• Virendra Sharma MP opens Hanwell Community Shop that will help people with disabilities find work

  On Monday 19th March I opened the new Accession Community Shop in Boston Road, Hanwell with Leader of Ealing Council Julian Bell. The new charity shop will allow people struggling to get a job due to a disability to pick up vital training and employment advice. As well as selling recycled clothes and furniture like regular charity shops, the store offers skills training, employment advice, and volunteering opportunities for people...

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• Virendra Sharma MP calls for standards for better prostate cancer care

  

  Virendra Sharma, MP for Ealing Southall, has expressed support for work being undertaken by The Prostate Cancer Charity to identify a national set of standards of quality prostate cancer care. After a wide-ranging consultation with people affected by prostate cancer, The Prostate Cancer Charity has compiled a draft set of standards that set out what good quality care looks like. The Charity is now calling on men...

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• Ealing Southall MP joins the fight with Race for Life

  “IT’S ALL of us versus cancer.” That’s the rallying cry from Ealing Southall MP, Virendra Sharma, who is urging his constituents to unite for Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life. Joining fellow MPs at a Westminster event last week, he backed the charity’s call to join the fight against all cancers - by taking part in Race for Life, volunteering on the day or helping to raise...

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• Share the Warmth in Ealing Southall

  

  Virendra Sharma, Member of Parliament for Ealing Southall, is calling on local residents to take advantage of a free energy efficiency offer, help a friend or a relative, and pocket £50 for their efforts. People will be given £50 for every person on qualifying benefits they refer to British Gas for free insulation. The money will be paid once the installation has been completed and there is no limit...

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• MPs make an exhibition of themselves for lung cancer

  

  Today Virendra Sharma MP's portrait is appearing in a one off unique parliamentary photographic exhibition to raise awareness of lung cancer, the most common cancer worldwide. In the UK alone lung cancer causes around 35,000 deaths a year. Virendra Sharma is among a group of politicians who have had their photographs taken for a parliamentary photographic exhibition. The exhibition is a joint project between the charity Roy Castle Lung Cancer...

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• Virendra Sharma becomes 'Real Life Entrepreneur' Champion

  Member of Parliament for Ealing & Southall, Virendra Sharma, has signed to become an FSB 'Real Life Entrepreneur Champion'. As a champion, Virendra will: - Listen to the concerns of Real-Life Entrepreneurs and champion their cause - Represent the interests of Real-Life Entrepreneurs on a national and local level - Recognise the many thousands of hard-working Entrepreneurs that support the UK economy...

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• Virendra Sharma MP for Ealing, Southall supports BUAV call to end animal testing for cosmetics

  

  Virendra Sharma MP is joining the BUAV in marking the first anniversary of the No Cruel Cosmetics campaign to end animal testing for toiletries and cosmetic products sold in the EU. Despite UK and EU bans on animal testing for cosmetics, products can still be tested on animals in other parts of the world and then imported and sold in the EU. A marketing ban which would...

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• Southall Gasworks anger against Tory Boris and Barnes

  Tory Mayor Boris Johnson and Deputy Mayor Richard Barnes (Tory Assembly Member for Ealing and Hillingdon) are both up for re-election on 3rd May this year and they are desperately hoping the electors of Southall have forgotten the decision Mayor Johnson made in March 2010 to overturn the democratic decision of Ealing’s planning committee and give the green light to the Southall Gasworks development. In the face of...

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