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Some of Nick's press articles
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Published in North Devon Journal on Thu 4th Mar 2010
Whitehall's education funding system has for decades been unbalanced, and as a result many children are left behind.
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Published in North Devon Journal on Thu 4th Feb 2010
Next week I will return in Parliament to the vexed question of water bills in the south west. Recently OFWAT announced that our bills will spiral upwards more slowly over the next five years than they have over the last twenty.
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Written by Nick Harvey MP and published in ADS Newsletter - Defence News on Tue 2nd Feb 2010
Twenty years on from the end of the Cold War, the UK's defence priorities are in dire need of reconfiguration for contemporary conflict.
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Published in North Devon Journal on Thu 21st Jan 2010
The Keep Chivenor 24 Hours Campaign is gathering momentum. Ministers must pause for thought before charging into privatisation contracts weeks before a general election.
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Published in North Devon Journal on Thu 7th Jan 2010
The election is still four months away but the New Year has seen all parties scrambling to make new policy announcements. Spin and counter-spin follow swiftly in their wake. The public is going to find it all very exhausting.
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Published in North Devon Gazette on Tue 5th Jan 2010
The New Year brings the whiff of political change. Two autumns ago Gordon Brown backed out of having an election, and last spring he was not in any position in the polls to consider one.
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Published in North Devon Journal on Thu 26th Nov 2009
The ghastly pictures on our television screens of Cumbria's floods should give us all pause for thought closer to home.
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Published in North Devon Journal on Thu 29th Oct 2009
Public finances are going to remain under serious pressure for several years. This will make for lively political debate as priorities will be scrutinised and challenged more than ever before.
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Published in North Devon Journal on Thu 15th Oct 2009
Once we knew the south west would be one of the first regions where television signals would go through "digital switchover" alarm bells started to ring.
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Published in North Devon Journal on Thu 1st Oct 2009
Last Saturday I presented the Braunton "Breathe Easy" group with their national award as the British Lung Foundation's best new branch.
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Published in North Devon Journal on Thu 17th Sep 2009
Next week sees the start of the party conference season - which this year have more significance because an election is due by next spring.
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Published in Mid Devon Gazette on Thu 17th Sep 2009
The very backbone of our children's local social networks be they sporting or social clubs, are supportive parents who week after week step in to offer a welcome helping hand. But under new Government legislation there is now a terrible presumption of guilt before being proven innocent. As my colleague Chris Huhne recently put it the Government is "in danger of creating a world in which we think every adult who approaches children means to do them harm," and this is a very sad state of affairs.
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Published in North Devon Journal on Thu 20th Aug 2009
Yet again it seems North Devon will have to mount a campaign to defend the Search And Rescue helicopter service operating out of Chivenor. Veterans of previous campaigns will no doubt be ready once again to dust off the placards.
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Published in North Devon Gazette Online on Mon 17th Aug 2009
SEARCH and rescue operations from RMB Chivenor are to be cut back to just 12 hours.
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Published in North Devon Journal on Thu 6th Aug 2009
It turns out the Met Office's optimism was ill-founded and we will now not be getting a 'barbecue summer' as predicted after all. Although a multi-million pound operation based in Exeter the Met is telling us that long-term forecasting (i.e. over 6 days) is a new science! Despite all the technology at its command long-term forecasting still clearly remains a very inexact science. I am informed that short term modeling is on the whole very good. In stark contrast long-term is affected by so many interrelated variables that at this stage it all remains very experimental. What is worrying is that these 'experimental' predictions are potentially very damaging to our economy.
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