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Crime and antisocial behaviour

Adam Holloway MP and Chief Superintendent Alison Roden, North Kent Police Area Commander, Gravesham

Chief Supt Alison Roden

I had my first meeting with the new North Kent Police Area Commander. The key topics of our discussion were plans to increase the targeting of antisocial behaviour, future policing budgets, and a review of some recent correspondence about issues affecting people living in Gravesham.

"Adam celebrating 25 years of the Lions Hospice"

Sunday, 21 February 2010

Adam Holloway: An end to steely-eyed killing machines

The old Bush/Blair mantras obscured a grim reality – we created the insurgency and cannot reduce it by sending in more troops

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Afghans gathering in Qari Saheb village in Helmand after the launch of Operation Moshtarak

"Strategic failure" is no longer a mere possibility in Afghanistan: it is the likely outcome. Last week's launch of "Operation Moshtarak" in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, is an allegory for so much that has gone wrong with Nato's deployment.

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How our pliant Generals became Blair's Yes Men - Was Iraqi cabbie source of dodgy dossier?

Adam writes in a Daily Mail exclusive

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Litter clearing Gravesend 4th Demember 2009

I have had a number of complaints about litter around the constituency and have been out with a team of 10 people this morning picking up litter. I would like to add that this has nothing to do with the excellent street cleansing department at Gravesend Council but everything to do with people’s attitudes and laziness in dropping their rubbish where they stand or hurling it out of cars.

We collected 15 bags of litter in the vicinity of Love Lane, Wellington Street and the park. Please do not drop litter. Take it home with you or put it in the bins provided.

I suspect the half eaten rat we found in the gutter was not something a human had left but it had an exceptionally long tail which freaked out a member of the litter clearing team …!

Thank you very much to those who came along to help. In fairness to the Council, the areas we worked through were much much cleaner than we had expected. Next time it would be good to have rather more volunteers - and perhaps people could let us know areas that are being missed.

Adam visits the new building site for Northfleet Technology College for Boys Oct 09

Adam visits north Kent marsh site of RSPB at the Thames. RSPB describe the Thames Marshes as "the Serengeti for birds in the UK"

Adam with Inspector Mike Cotham, head of community policy unit Oct 09

Question and answer session at Cobham Primary School 2009

Meeting Friends of the Earth group to discuss friendly farming methods 2009

Ebbsfleet to St Pancras is really first class

I took the new High Speed service from Ebbsfleet to St Pancras the other day. I can only say that it is phenomenal. Fast, beautiful trains, and happy staff. It took us 15 minutes to get to London, and about the same amount of time to get into the underground station. ...and it is coming to Gravesend in mid-December or possibly earlier. I have often criticised South Eastern trains - the service to Waterloo etc from Gravesend is the worst I have ever been on in the UK - dirty, often late, and life suckingly slow. In fairness to them, their senior management (Messrs Horton and Gibson) have always been extremely responsive and helpful - but of course, the help we want is a faster ordinary service on timely cleaner trains. But I guess we can't have everything. For now, and the new service: well done, brilliant - expensive, but it really is First Class. I now have some idea of what lies behind train spotting: I must find myself an anorak.

60th Anniversary of N.A.T.O

April 4 2009, marked the 60 th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty.

The events of the past sixty years have rapidly evolved and NATO has taken on new challenges. However, its core values remain the same today as they were at it inception: peace, freedom, security and stability.

Heads of State and Government came together on 3-4 April at the NATO Summit in Strasbourg, France and Kehl, Germany. Against the backdrop of the 60 th anniversary, NATO leaders focussed on the broader and more strategic issues that face the organization, and considered the place and role of NATO within Euro-Atlantic security

Local MP afloat with Port Authority

Port of London Authority (PLA) crews have welcomed Adam aboard their salvage craft as he spent a morning seeing their work at first hand.

“It was great to be able to spend time with the skilled crew of Hookness and the PLA divers. This work is essential to keeping safe the many thousands of vessels that use the Port bringing us essentials including food and fuel.”