Leader of Reading Borough Council David Sutton and Reading West MP Martin Salter have joined forces this week to criticise Tory leader David Cameron who used a recent visit to the town to criticise council tax rises in Reading whilst conveniently forgetting to mention that the rises in neighbouring authorities controlled by the Conservatives are more than double that of Labour’s 1.9% council tax rise this year in Reading.

On Friday 18th April Reading West MP Martin Salter will be joining “Friends of Chimney Court” to celebrate the restoration of the night cover service for the elderly and disabled residents of this popular sheltered housing scheme in Tilehurst.

Reading West MP Martin Salter will be on hand to welcome Environment Minister Joan Ruddock on her visit to Reading on Monday (April 14) to see how an innovative £611 million partnership between three councils is leading to increased recycling rates and a reduction in rubbish being sent to landfill.

Reading West MP, Martin Salter, presented a 1500 signature petition to the House of Commons on Wednesday (2nd April) calling on the Planning Minister to delete the Kennet Meadows in Southcote, Coley Park, Calcot and Katesgrove from the draft South-East Plan.

Home Affairs Select Committee and Reading West MP, Martin Salter, yesterday won a concession from Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to consider his move to allow for a much earlier parliamentary role on the use of the proposed reserve powers to extend pre-charge detention of terrorist subjects in the government’s Counter Terrorism Bill which received a 2nd Reading in the Commons last night.

I would like to begin by congratulating the Conservatives’ spin-doctors on hoodwinking a number of people into thinking that their Commons motion last week could have prevented some of the post office closures in Reading when in fact the precise opposite was the case.

Reading West MP Martin Salter will be at Denefield School in Tilehurst on Wednesday Morning (2nd April) to judge a public speaking session organised for 6th Form students, who will be debating the thorny issue of abortion policy.

Labour politicians in Reading have issued a public challenge to Thames Water to “make good their fine words” over the protection of an important wildlife site on land currently occupied the Bath Road Reservoir and earmarked for development.

Last month it was my pleasure to organise and host the 6th National Angling Summit in the House of Commons with new Fisheries Minister Jonathan Shaw MP.

Martin Salter MP has challenged pupils at St Mary and All Saints Primary School in Wensley Road to ‘skip to get fit’ with 1000 Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers.