Euro MP Robert Sturdy has been told by European Transport Commissioner, Jacques Barrot, that further European funding could be available for the A47 dualling in the Eastern Region. And the Commissioner has pledged to raise the issue with the UK government.
Mr Sturdy met the Commissioner in Strasbourg yesterday to plead the case for the region after learning it had been downgraded as a new major European route.
An increase in screening programmes and awareness levels of colon cancer could save hundreds of thousands of lives, Conservative MEP Robert Sturdy said today, at the start of Europe's first colorectal cancer (CRC) awareness month.
Mr Sturdy said: "I am delighted to be part of this key initiative. Too many people die of this potentially highly treatable disease."
Biofuel produced in East Anglia will soon be finding its way into the petrol tanks of motorists around the country. On 15 April 2008, the UK will unveil its renewable Transport Fuel Obligation. All fuel companies in the UK will have to replace a certain percentage of their annual fossil fuel sales with biofuels, by law. As from that date, 2.5 per cent of fuel produced in the UK will have to come from renewable sources such as crops.
Euro-MP Robert Sturdy has warned that proposed restrictions on the use of pesticides could lead to a severe reduction in the quantity of food produced by farmers in future years, resulting in food shortages throughout the European Union.
As proposed, it will also ban the use of weed killers in public places, and farmers will have to notify their neighbours in writing every time they use pesticides on their land
