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Home About David Local News Hot Local Issues National Policies Contact Me Your Questions Answered What The Papers Say The Ruffley Report Links Constituency Maps tellDavidRuffley.com Search What The Papers Say MP's anger at Suffolk roads funding East Anglian Daily Times, by Lisa Cleverdon, 30 October 2006 Poor funding for Suffolk's roads Ipswich Evening Star, 24 October 2006 Politician campaigns against hospital cuts Bury Free Press, 20 October 2006 Suffolk Tories spread health message Ipswich Evening Star, 16 October 2006 A14 needs more work East Anglian Daily Times, by Will Grahame-Clarke, 16 October 2006 Call for A14 improvements after crash East Anglian Daily Times, by Lorraine Price, 14 October 2006 100,000 alcoholics claim allowances Daily Telegraph, 12 October 2006 NHS dentist shortage 'worse than ever' East Anglian Daily Times, by Craig Robinson, 9 October 2006 Safety fears as roads budget cut East Anglian Daily Times, by Mark Heath, 2 October 2006 Will St Edmund slay St George? Bury Free Press, 29 September 2006 Support growing for St Edmund campaign East Anglian Daily Times, by Laurence Cawley, 27 September 2006 Region's NHS loses 500 beds in year East Anglian Daily Times, by John Howard, 25 September 2006 'We are determined hospital will survive' Bury Free Press, 22 September 2006 Labour accused of 'point-scoring' on education Bury Free Press, 12 September 2006 Angry train users demand answers East Anglian Daily Times, by Craig Robinson, 7 September 2006 Huge rise in cost of living revealed East Anglian Daily Times, by Craig Robinson, 28 July 2006 Fears over pub's plan to extend hours Bury Free Press, 27 July 2006 Police mergers a 'waste of money' Bury Free Press, 14 July 2006 Live long - move to Moreton Hall Bury Free Press, 12 July 2006 Plea for help against shoplifters East Anglian Daily Times, by Laurence Cawley, 5 July 2006 MPs blast 'failed' welfare reform The Express, by Kerry Gill and Alison Little, 5 July 2006 We're losing war on Benefit cheats The Express, by Alison Little, 5 July 2006 Tories rap shake-up The Sun, 5 July 2006 Campaigners shock at hospital times EADT, by Graham Dines, 5 July 2006 Labours' 'sham' on benefits Daily Mail, by Tim Shipman, 30 June 2006 Grey power alive and kicking in Suffolk Evening Star, 27 June 2006 Beds to go as hospital cuts worsen Bury Free Press, 16 June 2006 Blair U-turn over welfare reforms Sunday Express, by Julia Hartley-Brewer, 11 June 2006 Blair to water down welfare policy reform; Sunday Express, Julia Hartley-Brewer, 11 June 2006 NI numbers for thousands of illegal immigrants The Scotman, by Gerri Peev, 2 June 2006 Thousands face paying back money Evening Star, 1 June 2006 Benefit claimants may have to face lie detector Independant on Sunday, by Marie Woolf, 28 May 2006 Revealed: Scottish unemployment almost three times the official figure Scotland on Sunday, by Eddie Barnes, 28 May 2006 5.5bn pounds of taxpayers' cash thrown away in great benefits fiasco The Daily Mail, by Tim Shipman, 27 May 2006 5bn pounds for fraud and foul-ups The Sun, by George Pascoe-Watson, 27 May 2006 Benefit fraud and error cost 5.5bn pounds The Times, by David Charter, 27 May 2006 Welfare blunders cost south-east 300million pounds The Evening Standard, by Joe Murphy, 26 May 2006 MP talkies saves yorkies Sunday Express, 24 May 2006 Fight and fight again over debt by Moreton Hall MP David Ruffley Bury Free Press, 22 May 2006 Hospital in battle to save jobs Bury Free Press, 22 May 2006 Time for walkies! Redwood helps save sad yorkies Sunday Express, by Julia Hartley-Brewer, 21 May 2006 Enter, stage left... Bury Free Press, 19 May 2006 MP calls for vote over police merger Evening Star, 18 May 2006 Food giants start brown sauce war The Mirror, 13 May 2006 MP wants Branston in the House EADT, 13 May 2006 Will Blair leave in tears? EADT, 12 May 2006 Charities clear message Bury Free Press, 11 May 2006 Future of Air Search teams to be decided EADT, 09 May 2006 100 000 pound pre-school opens its doors Bury Free Press, 28 April 2006 Region's NHS still £90m in the red EADT, by Danielle Nuttall, 24 April 2006 Hospital braced for another tough year EADT, 22 April 2006 Benefit overpayments under Labour nearing Pounds 2.5bn Financial Times, 20 April 2006 2bn aid is blown The Sun, 20 April 2006 Labour has paid out pounds 2 bn benefits in error The Daily Telegraph, 20 April 2006 How benefit blunders leave the taxpayers with an extra £2bn bill The Daily Express, 20 April 2006 Surgeries keep me in the picture by Moreton Hall MP David Ruffley 18 April 2006 Questions over 1 million pound repair bill Bury Free Press, 18 April 2006 Search and rescue privatisation fears EADT, by Johnathan Barnes, 17 April 2006 Fears over gravestone costs EAD, by Dave Gooderham, 7 April 2006 Questions over grave repair bill Bury Free Press, 30 March 2006 Village event axed due to red tape EADT, Will Graham-Clarke, 30 March 2006 Cost of graveyard repairs revealed EADT, by Dave Gooderham, 30 March 2006 Countywide anger as police set to merge EADT, by Danielle Nuttall, 21 March 2006 Going Green by David Ruffley MP Bury Free Press, 20 March 2006 380 jobs to go in factory closure Bury Free Press, 17 March 2006 'Phantom parents' claim pounds 260m The Sunday Telegraph, 12 March 2006 'Begging letters' ask pensioners to send money back The Daily Telegraph, 11 March 2006 U-turn on pension credits clawback The Daily Mail, 11 March 2006 Ministers to waive excess pension payments to poor The Times, 11 March 2006 Government paid £ 130m too much through pension errors The Times, 11 March 2006 Elderly must repay pounds 130m in pension credit fiasco The Daily Telegraph, 10 March 2006 165,000 pensioners could be told to hand back cash Daily Mail, 10 March 2006 Millions lose out on their pensions The Express, 10 March 2006 Handouts scandal hits OAPs The Sun, 10 March 2006 Elderly may have to repay credits The Times, 10 March 2006 Crossroads is open, but work goes on Bury Free Press, 6 March 2006 Anger as grant cuts hit disability service Bury Free Press, 1 March 2006 Mast scheme sparks anger Bury Free Press, 1 March 2006 Anger and disbelief at cemetery 'desecration' Bury Free Press, 24 February 2006 Two million questions EADT, by Lisa Cleverdon, 17 March 2006 'Illogical' smoking ban gets a mixed reaction Bury Free Press, 17 February 2006 Chancellor accused of 'mandarinism' in MPC The Times, 15 February 2006 Incapacity benefit skivers who dodge check-ups by a doctor; The Sunday Express, 5 February 2006 Cheat with a handicap . . .but only on golf course The Sunday Express, 5 February 2006 Drive to cut benefit claimants 'fatally flawed' The Daily Telegraph, 4 February 2006 Junkies' handout scandal The Sun, 3 February 2006 Number on sickness benefit has risen 20 times under Labour The Daily Mail, 2 February 2006 Crackdown? The 2.7m on welfare won't lose a penny The Daily Mail, 25 January 2006 Sick payout bid 'doomed' The Sun, 25 January 2006 MPs to call on Brown to review his 'golden rule' The Times, 23 January 2006 Payouts upheaval rocks pensioners Sunday Express, 22 January 2006 Blair urged to rescue Post Office contract for benefit payments Financial Times, 20 January 2006, NHS is 'out of control' Bury Free Press, 18 January 2006 Villagers 'in disbelief' after plan is approved Bury Free Press, 17 January 2006 Death figures make for sober reading Bury Free Press, 3 January 2005 Health trusts short-changed - claim Bury Free Press, 28 December 2005 Labour's U-turn on welfare reform Daily Mail, by Benedict Brogan, 28 December 2005 Cash crisis may force GPs' surgery to close for month Daily Telegraph, By David Sapsted, 21 December 2005 Return of the `East Anglia mafia' EADT, by Graham Dines, 14 December 2005 Waiting in shadows EADT, Editorial, 14 December 2005 New MPs join the front bench Daily Telegraph, by George Jones, 14 December 2005 'Don't blame me, it's your fault' The Times, Gary Duncan, 9 December 2005 The Chancellor's "Spin cycle" The Times, 9 December 2005 Don't blame me, Brown tells MPs, it's the Bank The Guardian, by Larry Elliot, 9 December 2005 Brown blames slowdown on rate rises The Independent, by Philip Thornton, 9 December 2005 Public sector unions threaten to strike over retirement age The Times, by Gary Duncan, 9 December 2005 MP blasts Prescott over 999 mergers Bury Free Press, 21 October 2005 Regional Government 'by the back door' East Anglian Daily Times, 19 October 2005 Priced out of the market Bury Free Press, 4 October 2005 MP goes back to school Bury Free Press, October 2005 Health secretary issues blunt warning East Anglian Daily Times, 30 September 2005 Police chief's pledge over merger plans Bury Free Press, 26 September 2005 People power secures a pedestrian crossing Bury Free Press, 20 Septmeber 2005 MPs condemn terrorist attacks by Jonathan Barnes, East Anglian Daily Times, 8 July 2005 Higher council tax bills warning by Graham Dines, East Anglian Daily Times, 29 June 2005 D-Day for health service cuts Benedict O'Connor, East Anglian Daily Times, 29 June 2005 MPs hold crisis talks over hospital's debts Bury Free Press, 27 June 2005 Hospital axes 200 staff amid cash crisis East Anglain Daily Times, 25 June 2005 Going forward with hope - by David Ruffley MP Bury Free Press, 22 June 2005 Talks held on club's future Bury Free Press, 10 June 2005 Council Services Scandal Jonathan Barnes, East Anglian Daily Times, 9 June, 2005 David Ruffley retains Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket seat Bury Free Press, 6 May 2005 Looking to the future Bury Free Press, 4 February 2005 Buses fares hike shocks passengers Bury Free Press, 15 February 2005 Heat rises at fire station Bury Free Press, 19 January 2005 Meeting called on the buses Bury Free Press, 13 December 2004 Bus saga: is end in sight? Bury Free Press, 10 November 2004 Empty - but not the rhetoric Graham Dines, East Anglian daily Times, 20 September 2004 Victory as Post Office opens Bury Free Press, 6 September 2004 Residents concerned after travellers set up camp Bury Free Press, 6 August 2004 Ruffley tops constituents league table Graham Dines, East Anglian Daily Times, 24 August 2004 Widow wins battle for medical kit Bury Free Press, 28 June 2004 Anger over ward closure plan Bury Free Press, 4 June 2004 Angry commuters seal rail victory Bury Free Press, 21 May 2004 FURY AS Axe falls on school bus Bury free Press, 7 May 2004 Villagers 'no' to 600 new homes Bury Free Press, 29 March 2004 Post office victory Bury Free Press, 12 March 2004 A14 could become a car park, warns MP Bury Free Press, 24 February 2004 MP calls for support for CCTV campaign Bury Free Press, 27 January 2004 He is 'grey suit' man, East Anglian Daily Times, December 2003 Santa Brown and the Five Wise Men Ann Treneman, The Times Parliamentary Sketch, 19 December 2003 Quentin Letts Daily Mail Parliamentary Sketch, 19 December 2003 How Brown will put 3m more in the top tax band Paul Eastham, Daily Mail, 16 December 2003 Make land available - or forget it, says MP Bury Free Press, 6 October 2003 Ruffley warns of doctor crisis Bury Free Press, 28 July 2003 MP takes a look at the young side of life . . . Bury Free Press, 4 March 2003 He Went for Brown like a Chipmunk at a Bag of Nuts Quentin Letts, Daily Mail Parliamentary Stetch, 28 February 2003 When All Else Fails, Why Not Try a Little Loyalty? William Rees-Mogg, The Times, 24 February 2003 City Watchdog ‘asleep on job’ over split trusts Paul Armstrong, Evening Standard, 14 November 2002 Taxes to go up? Brown still refuses to answer Paul Eastham, Daily Mail, 19 July 2002 MPs take time out to reflect on a year Bury Free Press, 6 June 2002 Tax 'black hole' denied by Brown The Budget Benedict Brogan, Daily Telegraph, 25 April 2002 MP's bid for extra hospice cash Bury Free Press, 9 April 2002 MP's New attack on Bed-Blocking figures Bury Free Press, 7 March 2002 The House Magazine George Jones, Political Editor of the Daily Telegraph Recognition for a Top Tory Graham Dines, East Anglian Daily Times, 18 December 2001 Photographs

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