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• Labour wins huge victory in Glasgow North East byelection

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  Scottish National Party Labours closest challenger concedes defeat only an hour and a half after counting starts.
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• Labour wins Glasgow North East byelection as SNP concedes

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  Scottish National Party Labours closest challenger concedes defeat only an hour and a half after counting starts.
  1 day ago

• Glasgow North East by-election

  
  Miss Wagstaff Presents — Authority: 119
  The seat was vacated by former Commons Speaker Michael Martin, who resigned amid the Westminster expenses row. Voters will go to the polls today to elect one of 13 candidates as an MP. The parties have set a goal to knock on thousands of doors in the constituency, amid predictions turnout on polling day could be ...
  2 days ago

• Glasgow North East heads to the polls

  
  Lancaster Unity — Authority: 565
  Voters in Glasgow North East are heading to the polls today for a by-election triggered by former speaker Michael Martins resignation in the wake of the MPs expenses scandal. Political analysts have placed significant importance on the vote due to Labours precarious standing in the polls and the fact the by-election ...
  2 days ago

• A contest Gordon Brown dare not lose

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Film buffs in the soft south know more than they realise about Glasgow North East. Criminologists know more than they would like to. So do poverty analysts and critics of the former Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, whose enforced resignation triggered the contest in this traditional Labour stronghold. Home to ...
  3 days ago

• Labour favourites to win Glasgow North East

  
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  Labour are the clear favourites to win the Glasgow North East byelection as voters go to the polls to decide who should replace Michael Martin as their MP.
  3 days ago

• A Smoke and a Cheap Guitar

  
  30 Days Out — Authority: 126
  Earlier this week we roamed over to Luckenbach to soak up a little of that Texas mystique, and I thought while we’re in the neighborhood we oughta just keep goin’ about the good old days.  Well, as I said, back in the 1970s Texas became the epicenter of something called the outlaw country music movement.  It ...
  1 week ago

• Met rejects claim officer tricked official over Damian Green arrest

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Scotland Yard strongly refutes claim by Michael Martin, the former Speaker, that the serjeant at arms was tricked into keeping details of Greens arrest from her superiors The Metropolitan police has rejected a claim from Lord Martin, the former Speaker, about a senior officer supposedly tricking a Commons official ...
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• Michael Martin accuses police of tricking colleague

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  Lord Martin the former speaker of the House of Commons has accused police of "tricking" a colleague over searching MP Damian Greens office.
  1 week ago

• Martin criticises officials over police raid

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Former Speaker says he was disappointed with actions of serjeant at arms and clerk of Commons Lord Martin, the former Speaker, today strongly criticised two Commons officials for the part they played in the decision to allow the police to search the parliamentary office used by the Tory MP Damian Green. In evidence ...
  1 week ago

• MPs expenses: John Bercow is Mr Flipper when we wanted Mr Clean

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  When Michael Martin went we needed a Speaker who was beyond reproach says Gill Hornby.
  2 weeks ago

• Salmond lucky omen boosts SNP hopes

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Fate has moved its mighty hand, nationalist first minister tells Glasgow North East Alex Salmond claimed today that the Scottish National partys hopes of winning the Glasgow North East byelection have been boosted after he drew a "lucky omen" in a Gala bingo hall. The first minister said "fate has moved its mighty ...
  2 weeks ago

• Parliamentary reform: Speaking out

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Somewhere in the Commons library there must be a dusty book explaining the rules and purpose of a Speakers conference. No one needed to consult it when Margaret Thatcher was in power. John Major left its pages unread. Tony Blair did not want to be troubled by parliament. But it was somehow characteristic of Gordon ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brown to campaign in byelection

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  PM to visit constituency in run-up to byelection triggered by former Speaker Michael Martins decision to stand down over the MPs expenses scandal Gordon Brown is to campaign in the Glasgow North East byelection, it was confirmed today. No date has been set for his visit to the constituency but it could take place ...
  3 weeks ago

• Glasgow North East by-election set for 12 November

  
  Net News Daily — Authority: 562
  It has been confirmed Friday that the Glasgow North East by-election, triggered by the resignation of former Commons speaker Michael Martin, will be held on the 12 November. The writ required for the by-election was passed today in Parliament. The Scottish National Party, who are currently holding their annual ...
  4 weeks ago

• Outrage, hoopla, riot act – then move along, please

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Leggs harshness on expenses plays into the establishments hands: a show of action while the status quo is reinforced What a rare delight it is to see a late bloomer hit sublime form. Not since Grandma Moses debuted her first folksy paintings at the tender age of 76 has a septuagenarian unveiled such a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Another piece of scum found in the House of Lords

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 149
  So this failure as Speaker, the first Speaker to have to resign, has ended up in the House of Lords where he will be able to stuff his face at our expense and expect people to pay due respect to him. I trust that an incoming Conservative government will deal with Michael Martin in a similar way to that with which the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Simon Hoggart on Lord Martins introduction

  
  Washminster — Authority: 131
  In Todays Guardian Simon Hoggart wrote his parliamentary sketch. First he described the expenses row in the Commons - but he was in the Press Gallery for the start of Lords business (I was a yard or so away so I can confirm that this is a first hand account) - he wrote:- Yesterday, in one of the many magnificently ...
  4 weeks ago

• Thoughts on The Process -- Michael Martin

  
  POD People — Authority: 124
  Welcome to the Guest Post Segment: Thoughts on the Process, where authors share some insight on their writing. Our guest post this week is by Michael Martin Author of: Burning in The Heat , which was reviewed by The Podpeople in August 2008. Please welcome Michael Martin. MM: Perhaps, the most important thing about ...
  4 weeks ago

• Staying On Top Of Android And The Mobile Market

  
  WebProNews Videos — Authority: 574
  Android’s here, and it doesn’t take a lot of brainpower to realize that it’s not going away anytime soon. At SMX East, two experts talked about how people can adapt to and embrace the presence of Google’s new mobile operating system. Michael Martin, the SEO director of Internet Marketing Inc , covered some ...
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