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- Lyn Brown MP visits Forest Gate School for Fair Trade Fortnight
 Lyn Brown MP visited Forest Gate Community School to talk to students and see what activities they have been doing as part of Fair Trade Fortnight (22nd February – 7th March). Lyn met young people from Godwin Primary School, who had popped in to make some amazing Fair Trade t-shirts with colourful and personalised messages. Lyn was then grilled by Lister School students on her attitude and knowledge of the Fair Trade Movement before being offered healthy refreshments from the school’s own Fair Trade Juice Bar.
Events at Forest Gate Community School are part of events across the...
- Lyn Brown MP welcomes fall in teenage pregnancies
Lyn Brown MP has welcomed a 20% fall in teenage pregnancies in Newham, to their lowest rate in 20 years.
The Government has invested an additional £26.8 million nationwide in 2008 on promoting contraception. In Newham, improved sex and relationship education and programmes like C-Card, which allows young people to obtain free condoms, have contributed to this fall in teenage pregnancies.
Projects like Shine ALOUD, NHS Newham’s Young People’s Sexual Health Group, have helped to raise awareness and understanding amongst young people of the issues around teenage sexuality and pregnancy. This group is run by 16-24 year olds...
- Lyn Brown MP welcomes £11million for new homes
Lyn Brown MP has welcomed over £11million new funding from the Government to build 70 new homes in Newham. 10 of these will be built on London Road in Plaistow and the remaining 60 will be built at other sites around the Borough. This announcement is part of a £500 million package to build 8,000 affordable homes across the country.
This announcement follows £42.1 million funding for new affordable homes in Newham between July and September 2009 alone and a further £1.2 million in January 2010.
Since June 2009, the Government has approved £3.5billion funding for nearly 60,000 new...
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