Tag: Sheila Gilmore

I first met the Labour candidate, Sheila Gilmore, some years ago at Westminster, when she was an MP from 2010 to 2015. Now she is trying to win the Colinton/Fairmilehead Ward which Scott Arthur...

Edinburgh East MP Sheila Gilmore has campaigned tirelessly alongside other local Labour politicians against the plans to reprivatise the East Coast line since these were announced in 2013, as they believe it would be...

Edinburgh Labour MPs Sheila Gilmore and Mark Lazarowicz continued their campaign against the privatisation of East Coast yesterday by speaking to passengers outside Waverley station.   Speaking afterwards Sheila Gilmore said:-‘Passengers recognise the improvements to services that...

EDINBURGH LABOUR MPS VISIT WAVERLEY IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST EAST COAST PRIVATISATION Sheila Gilmore, Mark Lazarowicz and Ian Murray speak to passengers and East Coast staff MPs joined by members of the public, trade unionists and Councillors   Edinburgh...

With youth unemployment in Edinburgh up 272% a local MP claims young people are still paying the price for this Government’s economic failure. Commenting on today’s unemployment statistics, Edinburgh East MP and Work and Pensions Select...

LABOUR MPS UNITE TO CALL FOR HIGH SPEED RAIL IN SCOTLAND Lothians MPs Sheila Gilmore, Mark Lazarowicz and Graeme Morrice have come together to call for the proposed High Speed Rail network to be extended...

MP for Edinburgh East Sheila Gilmore has backed a proposal from Craigmillar residents to protect Cairntows Park from future development. Residents in Craigmillar asked Ms Gilmore to seek Queen Elizabeth Fields in Trust Diamond Jubilee...

Labour MP for Edinburgh East, Sheila Gilmore, is another of our Edinburgh MPs who split their week between time spent in Edinburgh and some time spent in London. She was elected to Parliament in May...

  Sheila Gilmore, MP for Edinburgh East, met with campaigners from the White Ribbon Campaign this week to show support for the work to reduce violence against women. The White Ribbon Campaign is the largest global effort of men working...

The Office for National Statistics has announced today new figures for unemployment in the UK. From this data it appears that youth unemployment has hit 1million. Commenting on today’s unemployment statistics, Sheila Gilmore MP said: “This is...

Sheila Gilmore, Labour MP for Edinburgh East today welcomed City of Edinburgh Council’s proposed resumption of the issuing of statutory notices for tenemental repairs, but called for the many outstanding complaints to be independently investigated. ‘Since...

MP for Edinburgh East Sheila Gilmore and MP for Edinburgh South, Ian Murray, have both joined forces with Breast Cancer Campaign to raise awareness of its biggest fundraising event, Wear It Pink Day. On Friday...