The announcement by Network Rail that the infamous Cow Lane Bridge traffic bottleneck can be solved without removing either the allotments or blocking off pedestrian and cycle access has been welcomed by local MP, Martin Salter.

Martin Salter, Labour MP for Reading West, has this week introduced a vineyard from Reading to the House of Commons’ wine list.

Martin Salter, Labour MP for Reading West, recently joined Usdaw, the trade union at the forefront of campaigning for working parents and carers, to welcome the government’s new Carers Review in Westminster.

A lock-side show down last Thursday in front of waterways minister Phil Woolas MP between Environment Agency bosses, trade union officials, lock-keepers and their wives and the MPs for Reading West and Maidenhead eventually saw a climbdown by the EA over their plans to dispose of twenty-two of the fifty-seven lock houses along the Thames.

Reading’s Tories were today challenged to say whether they supported their colleague David Davis who has resigned his parliamentary seat to fight a by-election over the ‘ever intrusive power of the State’ claiming that there are too many CCTV cameras and questioning the use of evidence from the police DNA database.

I have been busy in Parliament in the last fortnight, sponsoring a Ten Minute Rule Bill which aims to halt the explosion of binge drinking by stopping the sale of cut price alcohol, and in working to set up a cross-party parliamentary group on Gurkha Rights.

Martin Salter MP, Labour’s Parliamentary Spokesman for Angling has issued the following press statement regarding Bewdley Town Council.

Martin Salter, Labour MP for Reading West, has today announced that together with Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe, and Liberal Democrat Bob Russell, he has contacted MPs and Members of the House of Lords to set up an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Gurkha Rights.

Salter - “the greatest and most detrimental impact on community relations occurs if a bomber gets through”

Plans by the Environment Agency to dispose of 22 of its 57 lock-keepers’ houses along the Thames have run into further opposition following a cross-party meeting with Thames Valley MPs in the House of Commons last week.