Following the recent revelations surrounding MPs’ expenses, Reading West MP Martin Salter, and Labour candidate for Reading East Anneliese Dodds have published a seven-point plan to clean up and restore faith to the political system. Mr Salter one of just a handful of MPs who do not claim for a second home despite living a considerable distance from London.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Reading West Martin Salter who chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Gurkha Rights expressed his joy and delight at the change of heart by the Government when they announced that Gurkha soldiers who retired prior to 1997 would be allowed to apply to settle in the UK.

Labour Angling Spokesman and Reading West MP Martin Salter spoke up for angling once again in the House of Commons this week in a debate on the “Condition of Rivers” in Westminster Hall timed to coordinate with the launch of the “Rivers on the Edge” campaign supported by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the RSPB [...]

It was my sad duty to say goodbye to a much loved figure in Tilehurst and West Berkshire this week. On Monday I attended the funeral of Brian Dowding, the former Westwood councillor. Brian was elected to the old Newbury District Council in 1973 as an Independent, later joining the Liberal Democrats and becoming their group leader for a while. He was an active member of Tilehurst Parish Council and was personally responsible for the creation of the Calcot recreation ground which would be blighted forever if the dreadful Blue Living proposals were approved at Pincents Hill by West Berkshire Council. Brian was a man of great humour, integrity and energy who put far more back into life than he ever took out. He was someone who went into politics for all the right reasons and who will be sorely missed.

Labour Angling Spokesman and Reading West MP Martin Salter spoke up for angling once again in the House of Commons this week in a debate on the “Condition of Rivers”.

Former Reading manager Steve Coppell has achieved the rare accolade of being honoured in a Commons Early Day Motion tabled by Reading MPs Martin Salter and Rob Wilson. The Motion reads:-

On April 23rd, West Berkshire councillors voted to include Whitehart Meadows in Theale and Pincents Hill in Tilehurst in the top three of the list of the council’s preferred development sites in the Local Development Framework (LDF) which covers the period to 2026. The LDF now goes out to a formal consultation and Martin Salter is encouraging local people to register their opposition to this proposed destruction of the green gap between Tilehurst, Calcot, and Theale and the expansion of the existing settlement boundaries.

Martin Salter, Labour MP for Reading West, visited Downsway Primary School in Tilehurst on Friday 24th April at the invitation of the School’s Council - a new initiative created to improve student input and discussion.

But South East Plan cuts housing numbers and supports settlement boundaries.

Local Gurkha campaigners have weighed in behind Reading West MP Martin Salter following attempts by Reading Conservatives to make party political capital out of yesterday’s climbdown by the Government on Gurkha settlement rights and the subsequent vote in the House of Commons.