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- GOVERNMENT FUNDING FOR NEW GAMMA CAMERA AT TRELISKE
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust Board has approved the purchase of a new Gamma Camera at Treliske, following a successful bid to government for capital funding. The new camera will replace an existing camera, which is at the end of its life and will bring 'significant benefits' to patients at RCHT. Without the new camera, more patients would have to travel to Plymouth or even further afield. Jude Robinson, Labour's candidate for Camborne, Redruth & Hayle said: " I am constantly amazed at the fantastic range of high tech diagnostic and treatment facilities we have on our doorstep in Cornwall....
- LABOUR CANDIDATES TWEET 4 CORNWALL
Jude Robinson and Philippa Latimer, Labour's Parliamentary candidtaes in the far west Cornwall constituencies of Camborne & Redruth and St Ives are two of the most mentioned candidates in the social media site 'Twitter'.
Philippa and Jude twittered in as the 19th and 20th most mentioned candidates. This means that people 'retweeted' (repeated via twitter) or replied to their comments which 'tweaked' them into the top 20 of 220 PPCs online across the country.
The report was complied by the political service 'Tweetminster' which provides information on politics, comment and news, aiming to make politicians more accessible to the public....
- ON TRACK FOR RECOVERY - UNEMPLOYMENT RELATIVELY LOW
Cornwall Labour Party has given a cautious welcome to news that the economy showed a 0.1% growth in the 4th quarter of 2009. This has come just days after employment figures showed that 9168 in the county are out of work compared to 28,572 in 1992.
Jude Robinson, Spokesperson for Cornwall Labour Party and Parliamentary Candidate for Camborne & Redruth (including Hayle) said:
“Labour has given people in Cornwall the dignity of a national minimum wage and relatively low unemployment even during recession.
“The banking crisis produced the most difficult economic conditions for a generation but the our government’s...
- PRODUCE ENERGY AND HEAT FROM WASTE - NOT HIGHER BILLS
Jude Robinson is urging Cornwall Councillors to get a grip of urgent waste issues before taxpayers suffer more cuts and higher council tax as a result. Lack of leadership and political infighting over waste is costing Cornwall taxpayers £millions and could lead to broken promises over landfill at United Mines, according to information obtained by Jude under the Freedom of Information Act. Jude said: My message to councillors is this: “For goodness' sake, get on with it because it is the taxpayers who will pay if you can't make a decision and stick with it. "Cornwall's waste problem is...
- Cancer Commitment
Jude Robinson, Labour's Parliamentary Candidate for Camborne, Redruth & Hayle has signed up to Cancer Research UK's Cancer Commitment, to help make UK cancer outcomes amongst the best in Europe in the next ten years. Jude said: "Investment in the NHS for better, faster cancer treatment has helped improve survival rates in the UK but we need to do more. "The government is now piloting a new software programme to help GPs diagnose cancer earlier, which is key to improving outcomes. This will be another world first for the NHS with Labour. "I am very pleased to sign up to...
- Help from Labour
The cold weather conditions are particularly difficult for the elderly but one very good outcome is the number of people calling on their neighbours to make sure they have everything they need if they can’t get out. We have fantastic communities in Cornwall! Now that these connections have been made or strengthened, it would be a good time to check that relatives, neighbours or friends are receiving all the help they are entitled to from government. The Pension Credit guarantees a minimum income of £198.45 per couple and could be available even for those with savings or occupational...
- Nadelik lowen ha blydhen nowydh da
The Labour Party wishes everyone a good Christmas, enjoying time with family and friends and celebrating what is most important to them. As the New Year approaches, Cornwall can look with hope to a positive future. Investment in renewable energy via the wave hub off Hayle will very soon be feeding electricity into the national grid. Cornwall College, Camborne School of Mines and the Combined Universities in Cornwall are proving excellent providers of courses to develop skills that will move Cornwall towards a green future and a successful economy. New ideas, such as Geo Thermal Engineering’s project at United...
- LOCAL FIRM IN 2ND ROUND OF FUNDING FOR HOMES AND JOBS
Jude Robinson is delighted that a bid for more than £6 million government funding towards new homes in Camborne has successfully gone through to the second round and has contacted the Housing Minister, John Healey MP, in support. Galliford Try Homes Ltd could win £6,082,000 to build 95 new homes at Dolcoath in Camborne. The company specialises in building new homes on brownfield sites and is the parent company of Midas Homes, based in the South West. Jude said: "This is exactly what we need in Camborne: a mixed development of homes to buy and rent in an area that...
- CANCER PATIENTS MUST COME FIRST
Jude Robinson, Labour candidate for Camborne & Redruth has welcomed the statement from Dr Alex Mayer of Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust that patients will not be affected by the continuing debate over moving some Upper Gastro-Iintestinal cancer operations to Plymouth. Jude said: "The last two years of wrangling and now the lack of a local decision must be the worst outcome of all. Cornwall Councillors have rubber stamped this twice, reconsidered, failed to ensure public consultation, approved again and now asked someone else to take the decision. "What cancer patients must be feeling does not bear thinking about. I am...
- WELCOME EXTENSION TO FREE SCHOOL MEALS
Jude Robinson has welcomed the extension of free school meals for low income families announced in the Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report today. Jude said: " This will be particularly effective at tackling child poverty in Cornwall where wages are not yet in line with other areas. This is a measure that the Labour Party in Cornwall has lobbied government for and is in our local manifesto. " Protecting pensioners with an above inflation increase is also very welcome and more support for the green energy. Above all, help for unemployed people, help to get back to work and supporting the economic...
- LIB DEMS OWE HEALTH CAMPAIGNERS AN APOLOGY
Liberal Democrats - MPs and Councillors - should apologise to health campaigners for failing Cornwall over the move of specialist UGI cancer services out of county. It has been revealed that a letter (attached) from John Mills, Chair of Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust in 2008, alerted Lib Dems to legal advice that a public consultation was needed on the move. The letter was copied to the Chair of the Scrutiny Committee, Eric Parkin and the Leader of the Lib Dem group, David Whalley. Despite this, the Scrutiny Committee failed to ensure a full public consultation was held or the legal...
- HARD WORK SUPPORTED BY LABOUR INVESTMENT
Congratulations to Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trusts on chalking up two significant success stories this week. News that Treliske is recommended to provide the second specialist Gynae surgery centre in the South West has followed the independent Dr Foster report that says RCHT is one of the top four hospital trusts in the South West. Jude said: " The sheer hard work and dedication of staff at Cornwall's hospitals must be acknowledged. It is clear that the Trust is moving forward and that leadership and performance are improving. For that to be recognised twice in the same week is a real...
- LABOUR CHALLENGE TO JULIA OVER TORY PACT
Jude Robinson is challenging Lib Dem MP Julia Goldsworthy to let the voters in Camborne, Redruth & Hayle know her views on a Lib Dem/Tory pact for government. It has been widely reported in the press this week that Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has indicated that if the 2010 General Election resulted in no single party winning an outright Commons majority, Lib Dem MPs would swing their votes behind David Cameron to form a Conservative government. Jude said: “Eighteen years of Tory government left Cornwall with an economy on a par...
- IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED TO CAMBORNE BUS STATION
 First officials have agreed to meet Labour candidate Jude Robinson and bus users to discuss the state of facilities at Camborne's bus station. Last week the waiting room was locked due to staff illness in Truro, the door opener for wheelchair users has not worked for some time, the telephone box has been removed and there are no benches available for commuters to rest while waiting. Pictured here at the station with local bus users Liz Uren and Sandra Robinson, Jude said: "First Bus say they have no money to provide benches or repairs, yet they considered making a multi-million...
- NEWS OF LABOUR DEMISE GREATLY EXAGGERATED
The idea that Labour is already defeated in the General Election or has abandoned the South West has got local journalist Matt Chorley a bit excited today but news of Labour's demise is, as they say, greatly exaggerated. The article was based on some statistical evidence about voters drawn from Experian information (data collected on consumer preferences) applied to different areas of the country and then mixed with a dash of gossip. There is the usual reference to Ben Bradshaw's Exeter seat being targeted by the Conservatives, which seems an obligatory reference in any Western Morning News article these...
- Apprenticeships for the future
Cornwall's low wage economy has been boosted by the minimum wage but there is a long way to go and a lot of work to do before pay in the county is in line with the rest of the UK, says Jude Robinson. "Part of the answer to low wages is building skills and Cornwall College is doing a fantastic job. It is not just about being the biggest provider of Further Education, it is about being the best and I think they are." Jude studied at Cornwall College herself in 1994 - 5 and went back last week to...
- DAILY STRUGGLE FOR HELP FROM CORNWALL SOCIAL CARE
When someone looks you in the eye and tells you they would rather commit suicide than let the local authority look after their child, it is shocking to the core. Following a meeting with parents of disabled children yesterday, Jude Robinson, Labour PPC for Camborne Redruth & Hayle said: ""The lives of people with disabled children in Cornwall are a daily struggle. It is not so much the disability that is the problem but the attitude of those who are supposedly there to support them. What they have to go through should not happen in a civilised society." The...
- Hot Air on Health
Tory candidates are jumping up and down demanding the Secretary of State intervenes in the decision to transfer UGI cancer surgery to Derriford. Yet their colleagues, who are now running Cornwall Council, have the power to do just that under legislation introduced by Labour. The Health Scrutiny Committee has huge powers to involve the public in making decisions, including public surveys or forming panels of interested parties to give evidence. Last year, Lib Dem MPs stayed silent as their colleagues on the Council rubber stamped the decision. Lib Dem Councillors, who ran the last Council, drastically restricted public involvement...
- Conference Speech on Redruth North Partnership
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- INCLUDE YOUNG PEOPLE IN SWIMMING BENEFITS
Welcoming news that more people have taken advantage of the free swimming scheme since it was introduced earlier this year, Jude Robinson (Labour PPC for Camborne, Redruth & Hayle) is calling on Cornwall Council to extend the scheme to cover under 16s. “It is wonderful that older people in Cornwall have been able to swim for free, thanks to this scheme, on 28,046 occasions. What a shame that Cornwall Council do not include our under 16s in this government scheme. "At a recent meeting with Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change, it was revealed that up to half of young people in...
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