Edward Garnier, MP for Harborough, Oadby & Wigston, spent time at South Wigston High School on Friday, 27 April with the Head Teacher, Gary Toward, to discuss the school’s future as an Academy and the Governors’ and school’s aspirations to change from a 10 to 14 age group school to one that teaches pupils up to 16 years old.
Harborough MP Edward Garnier was on hand to congratulate Mr and Mrs Kevin Stokes, the owners of Market Harborough’s Farndon Road Farm Shop at an awards ceremony in the House of Lords in Westminster on Wednesday, 7 March 2012 when it was announced that the Farm Shop had been selected as National Finalists and Midlands Regional Winners in the Local Food category.
Edward Garnier MP for Harborough, has widely welcomed the launch of Scout Community Week this year. Formally known as “Bob a Job” week, Scout Community Week will return after a seventeen year break.
On Friday 9 March MP for Harborough, Edward Garnier, visited Foxton Locks to see the progress on the restoration works which the Foxton Locks Inclined Plane Trust have been carrying out at the heritage and premier tourist site.
A Conservative councillor Rav Thakor has called on the leader of Oadby and Wigston Borough Council to resign after a golf course run by the authority made a loss of more than half a million pounds in seven years.
The recent announcement by Oadby and Wigston Council that the Oadby Municipal Golf Course is to be shut with losses of over £100,000 in the current year, has been condemmed by Cllr Ravendra H Thakor ( Grange ward) and newly elected Woodlands representative Cllr Bhupendra Dave.
Harborough MP, Edward Garnier, was at Little Lebanon, 70 Leicester Road, Kibworth Harcourt, now the home of Dougal and Alison Powrie, on Saturday 18 February where he made a short speech to mark the unveiling of a blue plaque commemorating the birthplace of Sir Harold Ridley FRS (1906-2001), the world famous eye surgeon
