Archive for October, 2011
Monday, October 31st, 2011
Christopher Pincher, Member of Parliament for Elford, Edingale & Tamworth, will be pulling pints in the Crown Inn in Elford on Saturday 12th November from 1:30PM until 2:30PM. The Crown Inn is located at The Square at the heart of Elford village.
His work experience is part of the All Party Parliamentary Beer Group ‘Work in a Pub’ project in which it is encouraging its members to take part to learn first-hand about the industry.
Local residents are encouraged to stop by to have a pint, or simply a quick chat while Chris learns more about the pub trade and tries his hand at working behind the bar.
Mr Pincher commented, “I am really pleased to be taking part in this project. It looks like it will be fun. I do hope residents in Elford and elsewhere will drop in to see me trying to learn the ropes and find out more about the pub industry. Pubs play such an important role in our communities and I am keen to learn more about what happens on the other side of the bar. The thing that worries me most is handling the till – they look so much more complex than they used to be.”
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
MP for Tamworth, Christopher Pincher, recently met with local campaigner Sharon Fox from Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s Campaigns & Advocacy Network (CAN) at the 12th annual Westminster Fly-In event to discuss how to improve breast cancer survival rates. Mr. Pincher also took the time to sign up to Breakthrough’s Bridging the Gap in Breast Cancer Survival Charter, which outlines the commitments needed to make sure more women survive breast cancer.
Nearly 48,000 women and 300 men are diagnosed with the disease each year, making it the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK. Even though more women are surviving bre
ast cancer than ever before thanks to better awareness, screening and treatments, survival in England still lags behind some other European countries. If England was to achieve survival rates at the European best for breast cancer, an estimated 1,000 lives could be saved each year.
In response to this challenge, Breakthrough Breast Cancer developed the Bridging the Gap in Breast Cancer Survival Charter and believes that the Government can tackle this issue by supporting its key principles; promoting breast awareness messages to help drive early diagnosis, providing access for all eligible women to gold standard NHS Breast Screening Programmes and maximising the potential of breast cancer research, to create personalised or targeted treatments.
Mr. Pincher signed the charter saying:
“We have the opportunity to make effective change that can save lives. We need to do all we can to raise awareness about this cancer and focus efforts on treatments to improve survival rates and make a real difference”
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