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Turnout: 44899 (57%)
47.1%
Liberal Democrat: 21145 (+4.5%)
33.1%
Conservative: 14868 (+3.2%)
19.8%
Labour: 8886 (−5.2%)
View the results in detail.
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Welcome to Bob Russell's web site
This website is one of the many ways in which I try and stay in touch with the residents of Colchester.
There are details of my campaigns both in Colchester, and in Parliament, and various other information about my activities.
If you would like to get in touch with me about anything, please send an email to info@bobrussell.org.uk. To book an appointment at one of my advice surgeries, please follow the links on the right.
Yours,
Russell astonished over MPs' expenses
Thu 4th Feb 2010
Colchester MP Bob Russell - whose personal expenses are amongst the lowest ten per cent of all MPs - has said he is astonished to be told that he had claimed too much!
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Russell criticises rogue landlords
Fri 29th Jan 2010
Colchester MP Bob Russell today (Friday) condemned owners of buy-to-rent houses who default on the mortgages leading to their tenants being evicted even though they had paid their rent.
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Commons query over Army ranges
Wed 27th Jan 2010
The Government is being quizzed by Colchester MP Bob Russell as to whether there are plans to make any part of the Middlewick Firing Ranges surplus to requirements - leading to the possible sale of the land for residential development.
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Russell meets Afghan MPs
Wed 27th Jan 2010
Colchester MP Bob Russell has had a meeting at the House of Commons with Members of Parliament from Afghanistan who are in the UK for the international conference on Afghanistan which opens tomorrow (Thursday) in London. It is the second time that he has had a meeting with a visiting delegation of Afghan MPs.
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Campaign to save Colchester schools from closure continues
Tue 26th Jan 2010
Government Ministers are to look into the controversial proposals to shut Colchester's Alderman Blaxill and Thomas Lord Audley secondary schools after Town MP Bob Russell told the House of Commons that claims made by Essex County Council were inaccurate.
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MP makes a date with Castle Park
Wed 20th Jan 2010
A photograph taken by Colchester MP Bob Russell of the town's nationally acclaimed Castle Park has been chosen for the 2010 official calendar published by the House of Commons "House Magazine".
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Ban 'hate march' says Garrison Town MP
Tue 5th Jan 2010
Colchester MP Bob Russell is co-sponsor of a Motion Tabled today in the House of Commons which calls on the Government to ban proposals by an extremist group to stage a protest march - carrying empty coffins - through Wootton Bassett, the small market town in Wiltshire which pays homage to hearses carrying the bodies of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan flown into nearby RAF Lyneham.
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MP calls for inquiry Into snow chaos
Wed 23rd Dec 2009
Colchester MP Bob Russell has called on the Local Government Minister to hold an Inquiry into the chaos which has been caused by this week's snow - particularly so far as it relates to the salting of roads and pavements.
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